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[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Trade Lines (newspaper)\n\n\nTrade Lines is a pennysaver-style free weekly newspaper consisting exclusively of classified and display advertising. It has been serving selected markets in Berrien and Van Burren counties in southwestern Michigan since 1949. \"Trade Lines\" is distributed weekly each Monday to 44,000 households in the communities of Baroda, Benton Harbor, Berrien Springs, Berrien Center, Bridgman, Coloma, Eau Claire, Riverside, St. Joseph, Sawyer, Sodus, Stevensville, and Watervliet in Berrien County; and Hartford and South Haven in Van Buren County. Each full page", "id": "7372440" }, { "contents": "Berrien Township, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 5,084. Berrien Township was established in 1832, taking its name from Berrien County. The township is in the southeast portion of the county. The western boundary with Oronoko Charter Township is the St. Joseph River. Berrien Springs also lies to the west, with a small portion east of the river annexed by the village. Sodus Township lies to the northwest, while Pipestone Township and Eau Claire", "id": "211954" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien County is a county on the south line of Michigan, at the southwestern corner of the state. As of the 2010 census, the population was 156,813. The county seat is St. Joseph. Berrien County is included in the Niles-Benton Harbor, MI Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the South Bend-Elkhart-Mishawaka, IN-MI Combined Statistical Area. As one of the Cabinet counties, Berrien County was named for John M. Berrien of Georgia, US Attorney General (1829–1831) under US", "id": "10837554" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Times\n\n\nThe New Buffalo Times is a source of information on news and events in the city of New Buffalo and surrounding New Buffalo Township, plus other communities within the Harbor Country region of southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. It is a weekly newspaper published each Thursday. The \"Times\" is one of three weekly newspapers serving the inhabitants of Harbor Country, the others being \"Harbor Country News\" and \"The South County Gazette\". A subscription costs $40/year inside Berrien County and $48/year outside Berrien.", "id": "9227951" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\njog along Pokagon Road around Riggins Lake. M-140 turns back northward and runs through the community of Berrien Center. Near Eau Claire, the highway turns bends along Maple Grove Road for about before going north on Watervliet Road. East of town, the trunkline follows Main Street eastward toward the Berrien–Cass county line. M-140 intersects the northern terminus of M-62 and curves north. In northern Berrien County, M-140 follows Watervliet Road to an interchange with Interstate 94 (I-94). The highway continues northward along Main Street into Watervliet,", "id": "800150" }, { "contents": "Harbor Country News\n\n\nThe Harbor Country News is a weekly newspaper published by News-Dispatch Media, the publisher of \"The News-Dispatch,\" the Michigan City, Indiana's daily newspaper. It primarily serves the residents of, and their guests and other visitors to, the small communities of Harbor Country, a rural resort region bordering Lake Michigan in southwestern Berrien County, Michigan. Printed every Thursday, \"Harbor Country News\" bills itself as \"southwestern Berrien County’s best source for local news, sports, entertainment, things to do", "id": "2904422" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nBerrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. The building was sold, and over the next few decades was used as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, as a center for community affairs and dancehall, and briefly as the campus of Andrews University. In 1922,", "id": "12850349" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\n, then further southwest by the Prairie River from the east. The river continues southward into northern Indiana, flowing west through Elkhart, Mishawaka, and South Bend, where it turns abruptly to north to re-enter southwestern Michigan in southeastern Berrien County. In southwestern Michigan, it follows a wide meandering route generally northwest through Niles and past Berrien Springs. It enters Lake Michigan between St. Joseph and Benton Harbor, receiving the Paw Paw River from the north approximately from its mouth on Lake Michigan. There are 190 dams in the", "id": "16994015" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nthe necessary financing fell through. Soon afterwards the line again changed hands, and continued to decline. In August 1893 the Michigan Railroad Commission again condemned the line; regular service had ceased the previous month. In 1894 an election transferred the county seat from Berrien Springs to St. Joseph; contemporary analysis laid much of the blame on the failure of the St. Joseph Valley Railway and corresponding lack of railroad service in Berrien Springs. In 1897 a new company, the Milwaukee, Benton Harbor & Columbus, realized the old goal of the", "id": "17863161" }, { "contents": "Baroda Township, Michigan\n\n\nBaroda Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,801. The village of Baroda is the principal population center in the township. Tension between the communities of Baroda and Bridgman led to Baroda Township being split off from Lake Township in 1923. The township is in the central portion of the county, with Lake Charter Township and Bridgman to the west, Lincoln Charter Township and Stevensville to the north and northwest, Royalton Township to the northeast,", "id": "211918" }, { "contents": "Coloma Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nColoma Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 5,020 at the 2010 census. The city of Coloma lies within the township. The township is located in the north central portion of the county. Hagar Township is to the west, Covert Township of Van Buren County is to the north, Watervliet Township is to the east, Bainbridge Township is to the south, and Benton Charter Township to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a", "id": "212027" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph, Michigan\n\n\nlarger operations began operating out of the ports. The Coast Guard still maintains a station on this site. In 1876 the United States Lifesaving Service built a Lifesaving Station at St Joseph, appointing Joseph Napier as the first stationkeeper. After a bitterly fought political contest, St. Joseph was named the seat of Berrien County in 1894, when Berrien Springs relinquished that status. The three largest towns in the county, Benton Harbor, St. Joseph, and Niles, each wanted to be the county seat, but none had a majority vote", "id": "212226" }, { "contents": "The South County Gazette\n\n\nThe South County Gazette is a newspaper that served the southern Berrien County, Michigan communities of Bridgman, Buchanan, Galien, Harbert, Lakeside, New Buffalo, New Troy, Sawyer, Three Oaks, and Union Pier with news of local events and happenings. The bulk of the region that was covered by this weekly is known as Harbor Country, a popular, upscale weekend gateway destination for Chicagoans. Each full page measured 11 x 22 inches (27.9 x 55.9 cm) in size, and the typical issue ran to eight", "id": "2453185" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nSodus Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,932 at the 2010 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township. The unincorporated community of Sodus in the northwest of the township is its main settlement; the portion of the township just to the west is part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. Probably the first entrepreneur in Sodus Township was James LaRue, a New Jersey native, who purchased riverfront land for the construction of a sawmill in 1835", "id": "212214" }, { "contents": "Area code 269\n\n\nArea code 269 is the telephone area code serving the southwest portion of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. Communities using \"269\" include Dowagiac, Allegan, Battle Creek, Kalamazoo, Paw Paw, Portage, Otsego, Plainwell, St. Joseph, Benton Harbor, Marshall, Niles, Three Rivers, Sturgis, South Haven, Berrien Springs, and Bridgman. \"269\" was created in a July 2002 split of area code 616. The 269 area covers roughly the lower third of 616 before the split. Frontier and AT&T are the", "id": "730086" }, { "contents": "The Herald-Palladium\n\n\nThe Herald-Palladium is a newspaper distributed in the Southwest Michigan region serving all or part of Berrien, Cass, Van Buren, and Allegan Counties. The \"Herald-Palladium\" is a merger of many former local newspapers in the twin cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Missouri. The \"Herald-Press\" formed in 1916 in St. Joseph from the merger of two other newspapers: In 1916, uncle and nephew merged their operations. The \"News-Palladium\" was formed in 1904 from the merger of", "id": "16585467" }, { "contents": "Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference\n\n\nThe Southwestern Michigan Athletic Conference (also known as the SMAC or the Big 16) is a high school athletic conference in Southwestern Michigan. It is composed of Class A schools from the MHSAA in Berrien, Calhoun, Kalamazoo, and Van Buren counties. Early Days (1931) The Southwest Michigan Athletic Conference was formed in 1931, consisting of St. Joseph, Niles, Dowagiac, Three Rivers, and South Haven. St. Joseph left in 1938 and then reappeared back in 1940. The official name of the conference has always been", "id": "6068401" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nPresident Andrew Jackson. The county was founded in 1829, and was organized in 1831, before Michigan was accepted into the Union as a state. When Michigan Territory was established in 1805, the area of present Berrien County was included in the boundary of Wayne County. About 1780, New Jersey resident William Burnett established a trading post at the mouth of the St. Joseph River (present-day site of St. Joseph) to serve indigenous peoples and French Canadian residents. Also during that time, Joseph Bertrand established a trading post", "id": "10837555" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,800 at the 2010 census. The village is located within Oronoko Charter Township. Berrien Springs is best known for its Seventh-day Adventist community and Andrews University. Reflecting the community's population, many of the businesses in the village are closed on Saturdays. Berrien Springs, like Berrien County, is named for John M. Berrien; \"Springs\" was added after mineral springs were discovered in the area. The village is the site", "id": "211959" }, { "contents": "Bainbridge Township, Michigan\n\n\nBainbridge Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,850. It was organized in 1837. The name is a transfer from Bainbridge, New York. The township is in the northeast portion of the county, with Benton Charter Township to the west, Hagar Township to the northwest, and Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Charter Township to the north. East of the township is Keeler Township in Van Buren County. Pipestone Township is to the south", "id": "211905" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nrailroad access. Berrien Springs, then the county seat, had no access at all, while Buchanan sat on the Michigan Central's Chicago–Detroit line but had no cross-county access, nor a direct line to Lake Michigan. The new company, which incorporated on January 27, 1880, proposed to construct a line south from Berrien Springs to Buchanan and on to the Indiana border, which would put the railroad a stone's throw from South Bend, then a major railroad hub. Lack of capital prompted the company", "id": "17863157" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nThe Berrien Springs Courthouse is a government building located at the corner of Union and Cass Streets in Berrien Springs, Michigan. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970. It is the oldest courthouse in Michigan. The building today is part of the History Center and Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association, and is part of the Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. However, the location of the county seat was in flux for the first few", "id": "12850347" }, { "contents": "Lakeshore School District (Berrien)\n\n\nThe Lakeshore School District in Southwestern lower Michigan serves the communities of Stevensville and Baroda in Berrien County. All elementary schools are kindergarten through 5th grades, plus preschool Lakeshore Summer Learning Website To foster learning over the summer for Lakeshore students a website was created to provide practice for students. Many children enjoy learning using computer activities via the Internet, so we have designed a wiki with many links to great learning websites that are FUN for your student! Check out this valuable resource for students in kindergarten through fifth grade. The district was", "id": "12086780" }, { "contents": "Eau Claire, Michigan\n\n\nEau Claire is a village located in east central Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 625 at the 2010 census. The village lies partially within Pipestone Township and partially within Berrien Charter Township. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. Eau Claire was established in 1861. The community took its name from a nearby creek of the same name. The correct French pronunciation is Eau (pronounced \"O\") Claire. However, many local residents", "id": "212032" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nof the earliest settlement in Oronoko Township, and was first known as \"Wolf's Prairie\" in reference to the 1,000-acre prairie in which it was situated. The site had been a village under the leadership of a Potawatamie man named Wolf. The first permanent settlers, John Pike and his family, arrived in 1829. The village of Berrien was platted in 1831, and the village of Berrien Springs was incorporated in 1863. Berrien Springs was the county seat from 1837 until 1894, when St. Joseph became county seat. The", "id": "211960" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan College\n\n\nLake Michigan College is a community college in Berrien County, Michigan. The main campus is in Benton Township, Michigan with regional campuses in Niles and South Haven. The Welch Center for Wine & Viticulture opened on the main campus in 2019. Lake Michigan College was founded as Benton Harbor Junior College in 1946 within the city of Benton Harbor when voters approved an initiative to create a junior college. In 1954, Benton Harbor Junior College was redesigned into the Benton Harbor Community College and Technical Institute (CCTI). In 1963,", "id": "18386321" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889–1897)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Railway (1889-1897), earlier known as the St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1880-1889), is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the late 19th century. Intended to connect the Berrien County, Michigan communities of Buchanan and Berrien Springs with northern Indiana, the railroad never expanded beyond an initial connection between those two communities and sank under a weight of debt which poor traffic could not offset. The company was formed by local businessmen from both Buchanan and Berrien Springs frustrated by insufficient", "id": "17863156" }, { "contents": "Lincoln Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLincoln Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 14,691 at the 2010 census. Lincoln Charter Township is located in the west-central portion of Berrien County, with Lake Michigan to the west. The village of Shoreham and St. Joseph Charter Township are to the north, Royalton Township to the east, Baroda Township to the southeast and south, and Lake Charter Township to the south and southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, the township has a total area", "id": "212120" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe new building. However, despite the new construction, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to Berrien Springs. By the early 1890s, the cities of St. Joseph and Benton Harbor came to an agreement about siting a new courthouse, and a county-wide vote was instituted, with the plan to move the courthouse prevailing. In 1894, the county seat was moved to St. Joseph. After the relocation of", "id": "13863597" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\npreserve and restore the courthouse began. The restored courthouse square contains Michigan's oldest courthouse as part of the Midwest's most complete surviving mid-nineteenth century county government complex. Today the square houses a county museum and archives and serves as headquarters for the Berrien County Historical Association. Its original buildings are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. The gallery on the first floor of the 1839 Courthouse is devoted to exhibits on Berrien County history. Topics covered include early colonial forts, the fur trade, railroads, the Civil", "id": "211962" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nDave Pagel is a businessman and Republican politician from Michigan currently serving in the Michigan House of Representatives. Prior to his election to the House, Pagel served for four years as the chairman of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Prior to that, he was the president of the Berrien Springs school board for 14 years. In addition to his political activity, Pagel has been involved in agriculture in Berrien Springs Michigan for more than 40 years. His family owns Dave Pagel Produce, which packages and distributes Michigan-grown fruit sold", "id": "14462741" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\n, Watervliet, St. Joseph, St. Joseph, SS John & Bernard, Benton Harbor, Our Lady Queen of Peace, Bridgman, St. Gabriel, Berrien Springs, St. Mary of the Assumption, Three Oaks, St. Agnes, Sawyer, St. Mary of the Lake, New Buffalo Southeast Deanery \"(9 parishes)\" Dean: Very Reverend German Perez-Diaz St. Charles, Coldwater, Our Lady of Fatima, Union City, St. Barbara, Colon, Holy Angels, Sturgis, St. Joseph, White Pigeon, Immaculate Conception", "id": "14880187" }, { "contents": "Interstate 94 in Michigan\n\n\ncourse away from Lake Michigan. South of Coloma, the trunkline turns eastward and roughly follows the Paw Paw River on a course that takes it south of Watervliet and Hartford. Between the latter two cities, the freeway transitions from northeastern Berrien County into western Van Buren County. It curves around and between Lake Cora and Threemile Lake near the junction with the northern end of M-51. About further east, I-94 crosses M-40 south of Paw Paw. Continuing eastward, the Interstate runs through Mattawan before entering western Kalamazoo County. In Texas", "id": "19001666" }, { "contents": "Benton Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. At the 2010 census, the township population was 14,749. The township was established on March 11, 1837, and was named after Thomas Hart Benton, U.S. senator from Missouri. It remained attached to St. Joseph Township for administrative purposes until 1841. The commune of the House of David was located in the township. In 1967, the Benton Harbor Fruit Market, established in 1860 in Benton Harbor, moved to the township. The Benton", "id": "211923" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph River (Lake Michigan)\n\n\nJoseph River watershed drains from 15 counties: Berrien, Branch, Calhoun, Cass, Hillsdale, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph and Van Buren in Michigan and De Kalb, Elkhart, Kosciusko, LaGrange, Noble, St. Joseph and Steuben in Indiana. The watershed includes 3,742 river miles (6,022 km) and flows through and near the Kalamazoo-Portage, Elkhart-Goshen, Mishawaka-South Bend, and St. Joseph/Benton Harbor metropolitan areas. The St. Joseph River main stem is long, rising in southern Michigan in Hillsdale County", "id": "16994013" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Harbor is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan which is located southwest of Kalamazoo, and northwest of South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 10,038 according to the census. It is the smaller, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles–Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Benton Harbor and the city of St. Joseph are separated by the St. Joseph River and are known locally as the \"Twin Cities\". Fairplain and Benton Heights", "id": "211930" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nBerrien Springs post office opened with the name \"Berrien\" on December 4, 1832 and changed to Berrien Springs on April 18, 1836. When Berrien Springs became the county seat, its courthouse, designed by local architect Gilbert B. Avery, was completed in 1839. The Greek Revival-style courthouse emulated the architecture of ancient Greece with its large columns, triangular pediment and white paint. After the county seat was moved in 1894, the building was put to various uses and briefly was vacant. In 1967, efforts to", "id": "211961" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Council\n\n\nBenton Harbor & Saint Joseph Council and then in 1929 the name was edited to become the Berrien-Cass Area Council. Records show the Council ending in 1941 when its final name of Southwestern Michigan Council (#258) was adopted. The name aptly describes the council which has most of that corner of the state (with La Salle Council in Indiana picking up two of the border counties at the extreme lower tip of the state). Finally, there were several other early councils of note in the town of South Haven", "id": "21440149" }, { "contents": "McCoy Creek (Michigan)\n\n\nMcCoy Creek is a tributary of the St. Joseph River in southeastern Berrien County, Michigan. The headwaters are located in southwestern Bertrand Township in Berrien County, and adjacent portions of Olive and Warren townships in St. Joseph County, Indiana. The main channel flows primarily north (through Bertrand Township) and northeast (through Buchanan Township) for a distance of 6–7 miles (10–11 km) to its confluence with the St. Joseph River at the city of Buchanan. The McCoy Creek drainage is bounded to the north, northeast, east,", "id": "7033318" }, { "contents": "Sodus Township, Michigan\n\n\nPresident of Lithuania. The resort was closed in 1990. Sodus has had retail establishments in the past, though it has none now. The St. Joseph River forms most of the western boundary of the township, with Royalton Township on the other side of the river. The township shares a short western border with the community of Fair Plain in Benton Charter Township north of the St. Joseph River. Benton Charter Township continues as the township to the north, Bainbridge Township is to the northeast, Pipestone Township to the east, Berrien", "id": "212216" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw Lake, Michigan\n\n\nPaw Paw Lake is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes, without legal status as a municipality. The community is located within areas of both Coloma Charter Township and Watervliet Township in the area surrounding Paw Paw Lake and Little Paw Paw Lake, excluding the cities of Watervliet and Coloma. The population of the CDP was 3,511 at the 2010 census. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of", "id": "212182" }, { "contents": "Paw Paw River\n\n\nThe Paw Paw River is located in the U.S. state of Michigan in the southwest portion of the lower peninsula. It is formed by the confluence of the north and south branches at in Waverly Township in the northeast of Van Buren County. It flows approximately through Van Buren County and Berrien County until joining the St. Joseph River just above its mouth on Lake Michigan at Benton Harbor. Native Americans named the Paw Paw River after the paw paw fruit that grew abundantly along the river's banks. The watershed includes rare Great Lakes marshes", "id": "16557888" }, { "contents": "John M. Berrien\n\n\nsurrounding Chatham County. In 1850, he owned 143 slaves. Berrien died in Savannah on January 1, 1856. He is interred in Laurel Grove Cemetery. Berrien County, Georgia, and Berrien County, Michigan (one of Michigan's Cabinet Counties, organized during his term as attorney general), are named in his honor. Berrien was one of the Georgia Historical Society's founders in 1839 and served as the organization's first president. The Georgia Historical Society holds a substantial collection of Berrien papers (including important material relating", "id": "22037623" }, { "contents": "Barratt O'Hara\n\n\nBarratt O'Hara (April 28, 1882 – August 11, 1969) of Chicago was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Illinois and the last Spanish–American War veteran to serve in Congress; born in Saint Joseph, Berrien County, Mich., April 28, 1882; attended the public schools of Berrien Springs and Benton Harbor, Mich.; went to Nicaragua with his father and attended school at San Juan del Norte; at the age of fifteen years enlisted during the Spanish–American War and served as a corporal in Company I,", "id": "20115149" }, { "contents": "Bannockburn, Georgia\n\n\nBannockburn is an unincorporated community in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. Utopia is an [(Unincorporated area|unincorporated community)] in [(Berrien County, Georgia)], United States. ref Berrien County Chamber of Commerce, Berrien County Historical Foundation at 229-686-5123 Thank you. The former Central of Georgia Railway ran through the settlement. The Riverside Hotel in Bannockburn was built around 1905. At the same time, the Massey Felton Lumber Company operated a sawmill on the west side of the Alapaha River,", "id": "12291938" }, { "contents": "M-140 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-140 is a north–south state trunkline highway in Berrien and Van Buren counties of the US state of Michigan. The highway starts in the Niles area at M-139 and runs north through Watervliet to South Haven, ending at Interstate 196/US Highway 31 (I-196/US 31). In between, it runs through farm fields and past lakes in the southwestern part of the Lower Peninsula. The trunkline is used, on average, by between 1,500 and 10,200 vehicles. The state designated M-140 in the early 1930s over a", "id": "800148" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nMichigan Territory Legislature on October 29, 1829 with its present limits. For purposes of revenue, taxation and judicial matters, it was attached to Cass County, and was designated as Niles Township. This assignation was terminated in 1831 when Berrien County's government was organized and initiated. Berrien County began with three townships: Berrien County has favored a Republican Party candidate in all but six elections since 1884. The county government operates the jail, maintains rural roads, operates the major local courts, records deeds, mortgages and vital records", "id": "10837557" }, { "contents": "Black Autonomy Network Community Organization\n\n\nBerrien County jury was unable to come to a consensus verdict in Pinkney's felony election fraud case. A mistrial was declared. County officials decided to retry Pinkney on March 29, 2006. On March 22, 2007, a Berrien County jury convicted Pinkney of 5 counts. He was sentenced to probation, but was jailed for violating probation in 2008. In 2009, Pinkney co-founded the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP)'s Benton Harbor, Michigan chapter and was elected its president. In November", "id": "18364677" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nthe Seventh-day Adventists purchased the building and used it for religious services until 1966. Berrien County re-purchased the building in 1967 and restored the building. Restoration was completed in the 1970s. The building today is part of the History Center ant Courthouse Square and is operated by the Berrien County Historical Association. It is used for plays, concerts, and weddings, and houses exhibits on Berrien County history. The Berrien Springs Courthouse is a frame Greek Revival building on a high brick basement, measuring 41 feet by 61", "id": "12850350" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nincluded what is now Lake Township, which was organized in 1846. Originally, portions of both Oronoko and Berrien townships were on either side of the St. Joseph River, and at the time a large portion of the village of Berrien Springs was in Berrien Township, even though it was on the other side of the river from most of the township. In 1847, the river was made the dividing line between the townships. There are several accounts given for the name of the township. One is that it was named by", "id": "212175" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nMichiana is a region in northern Indiana and southwestern Michigan centered on the city of South Bend, Indiana. The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County, Indiana defines Michiana as St. Joseph County and \"counties that contribute at least 500 inbound commuting workers to St. Joseph County daily.\" Those counties include Elkhart, La Porte, Marshall, St. Joseph, and Starke in Indiana, and Berrien and Cass in Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the population of those seven counties was 856,377 (647,271 in Indiana and 209,106 in", "id": "21291538" }, { "contents": "Hagar Township, Michigan\n\n\nHagar Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,671. The township is in the north of the county with Lake Michigan to the northwest, Covert Township in Van Buren County to the north, Coloma Charter Township to the east, Bainbridge Township to the southeast, and Benton Charter Township to the south. Charles Lamb and his wife came to the area from Vermont in 1839 to become the first white settlers. The township was officially organized", "id": "212105" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nThe Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex is a historic district containing four significant structures, three former county buildings and a house. It is located in Berrien Springs, Michigan and roughly bounded by Cass, Kimmel, Madison and Union Streets. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1982. Berrien County was first organized in 1831. The first attorney in the county, Francis B. Murdock, arrived here in about 1830 and constructed a log house near this location in 1832. The location of the county seat was in", "id": "13863594" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nflux for the first few years, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. Berrien Springs donated four lots at this site on which to construct county buildings. A jail with jailor's residence was constructed here in 1837/38. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed a building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839", "id": "13863595" }, { "contents": "Royalton Township, Michigan\n\n\nRoyalton Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan, a few miles southeast of the city of St. Joseph. The population was 4,766 at the 2010 census, up from 3,888 at the 2000 census. There are no incorporated municipalities in the township, but portions are considered to be part of the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph urban area. The unincorporated communities of Hollywood, Scottdale, Arden, and Buckhorn are within the township. Royalton Township was organized in 1835 and originally included portions of Lincoln", "id": "212196" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nOronoko Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 9,193 at the 2010 census. The village of Berrien Springs is the only incorporated municipality within the township. Much of the eastern portion of the township is considered to be part of the Berrien Springs urban area. The western portion is primarily agricultural. The township was organized on March 11, 1837, from a portion of Berrien Township. Part of the area was known as Feather Settlement starting in the 1830s. Oronoko initially", "id": "212174" }, { "contents": "Lakeland Athletic Conference\n\n\nfollowed by Dowagiac, who left in 2001 after winning conference their last two years in Basketball (sharing with Berrien Springs in 2000). River Valley left the conference in 2010 to join the Red Arrow Conference. Bridgman became an independent football program in 2010. While Edwardsburg joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. Edwardsburg, Coloma, and Berrien Springs joined the Wolverine Conference in 2012. The final year for the Lakeland Athletic Conference will be the 2013-14 school year. The remaining schools Bridgman, Brandywine, Buchanan and Cassopolis are", "id": "21746118" }, { "contents": "Niles, Michigan\n\n\nNiles is a city in Berrien and Cass counties in the U.S. state of Michigan, near South Bend, Indiana. In 2010, the population was 11,600 according to the 2010 census. It is the larger, by population, of the two principal cities in the Niles-Benton Harbor Metropolitan Statistical Area, an area with 156,813 people. Niles lies on the banks of the St. Joseph River, at the site of the French Fort St. Joseph, first built in 1697 to protect the Jesuit Mission established in 1691. After 1761", "id": "17875430" }, { "contents": "Watervliet Township, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 3,102 at the 2010 census. The township originally included the area of Coloma Charter Township, which was separated in 1917. The city of Watervliet is the only incorporated municipality in the township. The Paw Paw River and Paw Paw Lake are prominent features of the township. The Watervliet area is host to many \"summer homes\", which has contributed considerably to the local economy as well as increased development. Interstate 94 crosses", "id": "212297" }, { "contents": "Southwest Michigan Regional Airport\n\n\nSouthwest Michigan Regional Airport is a public use airport located two nautical miles (4 km) northeast of the central business district of Benton Harbor, a city in Berrien County, Michigan, United States. The airport is owned by the cities of Benton Harbor and St. Joseph, Michigan. It is included in the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) National Plan of Integrated Airport Systems for 2017–2021, in which it is categorized as a regional general aviation facility. Southwest Michigan Regional Airport covers an area of 485 acres (196 ha)", "id": "3395384" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\nline is drained by small tributaries of the Kankakee River, which ultimately flows into the Mississippi River. This is one of two areas of Michigan drained by the Mississippi River, the other being an area of Michigan's Upper Peninsula near the Wisconsin border. The 2010 United States Census indicates Berrien County had a 2010 population of 156,813. This is a decrease of 5,640 people from the 2000 United States Census, or a 3.5% population decrease. In 2010 there were 63,054 households and 41,585 families in the county. The population density", "id": "10837560" }, { "contents": "Lake Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nLake Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,972 at the 2010 census. The township is located in the west central portion of the county. Lake Michigan and the city of Bridgman are to the west, Lincoln Township to the north, Baroda Township to the east, Weesaw Township to the south, and Chikaming Township to the southwest. In 1848, a village of 80 blocks was platted in section 25 with the name Livingston, but nothing became of it and", "id": "212110" }, { "contents": "Benton Heights, Michigan\n\n\nBenton Heights is an unincorporated community in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. It is also a census-designated place (CDP) for statistical purposes without any legal status as an incorporated municipality. The population was 4,084 at the 2010 Census, down from 5,458 at the 2000 census. The community is a part of Benton Charter Township and is adjacent to the city of Benton Harbor. Benton Heights was formerly called \"Euclid Center\"; the present name was adopted in 1957. According to the United States Census Bureau", "id": "211950" }, { "contents": "Buchanan Township, Michigan\n\n\nBuchanan Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 3,523. The city of Buchanan is located in the southeast portion of the township. Buchanan Township is bounded by Oronoko Charter Township to the north, Berrien Township to the north and northeast, Niles Township to the east, Bertrand Township to the south and southeast, Galien Township to the southwest, Weesaw Township to the west, and Baroda Township to the northwest. No major highways transit the", "id": "212009" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Michigan\n\n\non the river, in present–day Niles Charter Township. In December 1822, missionary Isaac McCoy moved his family and 18 Indian students from Indiana to the St. Joseph River near present-day Niles, Michigan, to open a religious mission (the Carey Mission) to the Potawatomi Indians,160 km from the nearest White settlement. In 1827 St. Joseph Township was organized as part of Wayne County, It included all lands acquired from the Native Americans by the 1821 Treaty of Chicago. The boundary of Berrien County was delineated by the", "id": "10837556" }, { "contents": "South Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery\n\n\nSouth Berrien Center Union Church and Cemetery is a historic church and cemetery at 10408 M-140 in Berrien Township, Michigan. It was built in 1858 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2002. Berrien Township was first settled by Europeans in 1827, and by the 1850s there were nearly 1000 residents. Berrien Center was established in 1857 as the site of the township's only post office. That same year, a union church organization, known as the \"Union Church District,\" was founded by local residents for", "id": "19206088" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nSt. Joseph Charter Township is a charter township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 10,028 at the 2010 census. The township is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the west central portion of the county, south of and adjacent to the city of St. Joseph. The village of Shoreham, on Lake Michigan south of St. Joseph city, is the only incorporated community within the boundaries of the township. Both the village and township are bedroom communities for the city of St. Joseph. The St. Joseph", "id": "212248" }, { "contents": "Lake Michigan Admirals\n\n\nThe Lake Michigan Admirals are a team of the Premier Basketball League that began play in the 2009-10 season as a member of the American Basketball Association. The Admirals are the second ABA team based in Berrien County, Michigan, after the Benton Harbor-based Twin City Ballers folded after their only season of 2006-07. The Admirals will play 15 home games, 10 in Lake Michigan Catholic High School in Saint Joseph, Michigan and 5 at Benton Harbor High School in Benton Harbor, Michigan. The Admirals are owned", "id": "13430434" }, { "contents": "Oronoko Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nthat the name was taken from a variety of tobacco known as \"oronoco\", \"orinoko\", or \"oronooka\". Andrews University (Seventh-day Adventist) is located in the township. The St. Joseph River forms the eastern boundary of the township. Berrien Township lies across the river directly to the east, and Sodus Township is to the north and northeast. Buchanan Township is to the south, Weesaw Township to the southwest, Baroda Township to the west, and Royalton Township to the north. US 31", "id": "212177" }, { "contents": "Berrien's Island\n\n\nCase Records, 1849-1851\" at the Queens Central Library, Berrien's Island had fallen within the County's jurisdiction (the County of New York's line of boundary on the North, across the East river into Flushing Bay). The island is also a half-mile from Astoria than the present location at Randall's Island. Berrien's Island is also as closer to Harlem as it was to Astoria: Berrien's Island is 2 miles distant from Astoria and Harlem. In a letter to George F. Clarke from", "id": "19226198" }, { "contents": "St. Joseph Valley Railroad (1848–1869)\n\n\nThe St. Joseph Valley Rail Road is a defunct railroad which operated in southern Michigan during the mid-19th century. The company was chartered on April 3, 1848, following authorization by an act of the Michigan State Legislature; the bill called for a line from St. Joseph, on the coast of Lake Michigan in Berrien County east through Cassopolis (Cass County) into St. Joseph County. The act stipulated that the company had ten years from the passage of the act to complete its line, a distance of about , or its \"", "id": "17562346" }, { "contents": "Neal Nitz\n\n\nNeal Nitz (March 23, 1954 – April 13, 2015) was a farmer and politician. Nitz was a Republican member of the Michigan House of Representatives from 2003 through 2008. Both prior to and following his service in the House, he was a member of the Berrien County Board of Commissioners. Born in Benton Harbor, Michigan, Nitz went to Southwestern Michigan College. A third-generation farmer, Nitz was the owner of Neal Nitz Farms. He was also a member of the Southwestern Michigan Tourist Council and the", "id": "15730043" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs Courthouse\n\n\nyears, court being held first in Niles and then in St. Joseph. In 1837, it was moved to the more geographically central Berrien Springs. In 1838, Gilbert Button Avery, a local builder, designed this building to house the county court. Builder James Lewis was awarded a contract to erect the building for $2,500; construction was completed in 1839. However, by the 1870s, the courthouse became too small to hold county records, and county residents of the more populous coastal towns grumbled about the poor transportation to", "id": "12850348" }, { "contents": "Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club\n\n\nThe Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club is a private golf club located in Benton Township, Berrien County, Michigan, United States, near Benton Harbor. In 1954, local residents C.E. (Bud) Blake, Charles W. Gore, Richard Merrill, Malcolm Ross and Frederick S. Upton expressed interest in a new golf club in the Benton Harbor/St. Joseph area. When land owned by Donald H. Ross became available, the group contacted Robert Trent Jones to inquire whether he approved of the location as viable for a championship golf", "id": "18323531" }, { "contents": "Berrien County, Georgia\n\n\nBerrien County is a county located in the south central portion of the U.S. state of Georgia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 19,286. The county seat is Nashville. The county was created February 25, 1856 out of portions of Coffee, Irwin and Lowndes Counties by an act of the Georgia General Assembly. It is named after Georgia senator John M. Berrien. The citizens of the area of Lowndes County and Irwin County that would become Berrien County had to travel long distances to get the county courthouse at Franklinville", "id": "11662300" }, { "contents": "Michigan's 6th congressional district\n\n\nMichigan's 6th congressional district is a United States congressional district in southwest Michigan. It consists of all of Berrien, Cass, Kalamazoo, St. Joseph, and Van Buren, counties, and includes most of Allegan county. 2011 redistricting removed the portion of Calhoun County that had been in the district, and added northwestern Allegan County, leaving only parts of the city of Holland in the 2nd district. Michigan's Sixth Congressional District was originally formed in 1862. At this time it had all the Upper Peninsula except Menominee, Delta", "id": "3917303" }, { "contents": "Kalamazoo, Michigan\n\n\nBuffalo. Some parts of Old US 12 outside of town, especially in Van Buren and Berrien counties to the west, are still called Red Arrow Highway. The term \"Old US 12\" has faded from use. The Kal-Haven Trail, heavily used by cyclists, runners, walkers, and snowmobilers, extends to downtown Kalamazoo. It runs between South Haven, Michigan, to a trailhead just west of Kalamazoo. Between that trailhead and South Haven the trail is run by Van Buren County, even the parts within", "id": "9543442" }, { "contents": "Expo Arena\n\n\nBerrien County Youth Fair Indoor Expo Complex is a 2,896-seat indoor arena located in Berrien Springs, Michigan, built as part of the Berrien County Fairgrounds. It will be used for concerts, sports, conventions and graduation ceremonies. The arena will be funded entirely by donations and corporate sponsorships. The 96,000-square-foot indoor arena will feature 18 luxury suites and 66,500 square feet of arena floor space. Of the 2,896 permanent seats at the arena, 1,866 are chairback seats. The Expo Arena will also feature an adjacent 120,000-square-foot stable", "id": "15262534" }, { "contents": "Berrien Springs, Michigan\n\n\nWar, early Berrien County industries, Native Americans and area pre-history. The Sheriff's House gallery hosts changing exhibits. Classroom programs include living history presentations. Teachers can invite a Civil War soldier or French voyageur to speak to their class. Berrien Springs was known as the Christmas pickle capital of the world. In the tradition, an ornamental pickle is placed on a Christmas tree as one of the Christmas decorations. On Christmas morning, the first child to find the pickle on the tree would receive an extra present from", "id": "211963" }, { "contents": "Old Berrien County Courthouse Complex\n\n\nthe county seat, the former courthouse complex was sold to private individuals in 1897. The courthouse itself served for a few years as village hall, as an armory for the Berrien Springs Light Guard, and was used from 1922 to 1967 by the Berrien Springs Village Seventh-Day Adventist Church. The jail was demolished, and the sheriff's residence and office building were remodeled into apartments. The Murdock log house was built onto, becoming a wing of a more modern house. However, the buildings gradually decayed over the years", "id": "13863598" }, { "contents": "Niles Charter Township, Michigan\n\n\nCass County on the east and the Indiana state line to the south. Bertrand Township lies to the west and south, Buchanan Township to the west, and Berrien Township to the north. Neighboring townships in Cass County are Pokagon Township to the northeast, Howard Township to the east, and Milton Township to the southeast. To the south in St. Joseph County, Indiana, is Clay Township, and German Township is to the southwest. According to the United States Census Bureau, Niles Charter Township has a total area of ,", "id": "212170" }, { "contents": "Nashville, Georgia\n\n\nwere below the poverty line, including 40.6% of those under age 18 and 15.3% of those age 65 or over. Berrien County students in kindergarten to grade twelve are in the Berrien County School District, which consists of two elementary schools, a middle school, a high school, and a charter school. The district has 172 full-time teachers and over 3,037 students. The city of Nashville is served by a public library, the Carrie Dorsey Perry Memorial Library, a part of the Coastal Plain Regional Library System", "id": "18797187" }, { "contents": "M-139 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-139 is a state trunkline highway entirely within Berrien County in the US state of Michigan. The highway starts at US Highway 12 (US 12) southwest of Niles and runs through rural areas of the county to terminate at an intersection with Business Loop Interstate 94 (BL I-94) in Benton Harbor. The highway runs parallel to the St. Joseph River, crossing the river several times as it follows a set of roads previously used for US 31 in the area. The highway was first designated in the 1930s as a bypass of", "id": "800043" }, { "contents": "Donald C. Cook Nuclear Plant\n\n\nDonald C. Cook Nuclear Plant is a nuclear power plant located just north of the city of Bridgman, Michigan which is part of Berrien County, on a site 11 miles south of St. Joseph, Michigan, United States. The plant is owned by American Electric Power (AEP) and operated by Indiana Michigan Power, an AEP subsidiary. It has two nuclear reactors and is currently the company's only nuclear power plant. The construction cost of the power plant was $3.352 billion (2007 USD). The plant produces 2.2", "id": "2200120" }, { "contents": "Roman Catholic Diocese of Kalamazoo\n\n\nThe Diocese of Kalamazoo () is a Roman Catholic diocese in the southwestern portion of the State of Michigan. The Diocese of Kalamazoo encompasses Allegan, Van Buren, Berrien, Cass, Saint Joseph, Kalamazoo, Branch, Calhoun, and Barry Counties. The Diocese consists of 46 parishes, 13 missions, 75 priests, and 36 deacons. The Diocese operates 3 high schools, 2 middle schools and 17 grade schools, serving more than 3,000 students throughout the same. There are also two parish run preschools. It currently has", "id": "14880167" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 125\n\n\nthrough Moody Air Force Base and intersects SR 122 at the meeting point of Lowndes, Berrien, and Lanier counties. It travels to the north along the Berrien–Lanier county line and then jogs slightly to the northeast, entering Lanier County proper. In Berrien County, it curves to the north-northwest before entering Ray City. Here, it meets US 129/SR 11/SR 37 (Main Street). At this intersection, US 129/SR 11 begin a concurrency. The three highways head north-northwest", "id": "12476014" }, { "contents": "Benton Harbor, Michigan\n\n\nELB would then appoint Tony R. Saunders II as the youngest Successor-Emergency Financial Manager for the city of Benton Harbor. Library service for the city is provided by the Benton Harbor Public Library. The town has a police department. The city is served by two institutions, Benton Harbor Area Schools within the Berrien Regional Education Service Agency, and Lake Michigan College, a two-year community college just east of Benton Harbor. Whirlpool Corporation, the world's largest manufacturer of major home appliances, has its corporate headquarters in nearby", "id": "211944" }, { "contents": "Bridgman, Michigan\n\n\nBridgman is a city in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 2,291 at the 2010 census. There was a place in this area known as Plummer's Pier. In 1856 lumbermen founded Charlotteville in this area. Bridgman itself begins with the village of that name platted by George C. Bridgman in 1870. It was centered on a railroad station opened that year. The Bridgman post office, with ZIP code 49106 opened with the name \"Laketon\" on November 11, 1862. The name changed to Bridgman", "id": "211989" }, { "contents": "M-152 (Michigan highway)\n\n\nM-152 is a state trunkline highway in the US state of Michigan in Cass and Van Buren counties. The highway runs through the Sister Lakes area providing access to the lake cabins and adjoining farmlands. The highway has existed mostly unchanged since the designation was commissioned in the 1930s. M-152 begins at an intersection with South County Line Road on the border between Van Buren and Berrien counties just west of Round Lake. Known as 92nd Avenue, M-152 travels due east past the Sister Lakes area before turning south on 66th Street. From there", "id": "800225" }, { "contents": "New Buffalo Township, Michigan\n\n\nNew Buffalo Township is a civil township of Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. As of the 2010 census, the township population was 2,386. It is the southwesternmost township on the Lower Peninsula of Michigan. When Berrien County was first established in 1831, New Buffalo was a part of Berrien Township. New Buffalo Township was established by an act of the state legislature on March 12, 1836. Five days later, the village of New Buffalo was incorporated. The township originally included what are now Three Oaks Township and", "id": "212142" }, { "contents": "Watervliet, Michigan\n\n\nWatervliet is a city in northeastern Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 1,735 at the 2010 census, down from 1,843 at the 2000 census. Mostly a rural farming community, the name comes from the Dutch for \"where the waters meet.\" The city is surrounded by Watervliet Charter Township but is administered autonomously. According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , of which is land and is water. As of the census of 2010, there were 1,735 people", "id": "212290" }, { "contents": "M-62 (Michigan highway)\n\n\ncountry's defense, economy or mobility. M-62 was formed before 1924 along a portion of its current routing. The trunkline started at the Indiana state line and ran north through Edwardsburg and Cassopolis. The northern terminus was at M-40 (now M-51) in Dowagiac. The southern section was moved by the end of 1925 to follow a more direct routing between Edwardsburg and the state line. An extension in 1930 moved the northern terminus west into Berrien County, ending in Eau Claire. The final few miles of highway were transferred back", "id": "1131449" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 31 in Michigan\n\n\nbetween I-94 and the Berrien–Van Buren county line. This section was originally designated as part of I-96/US 31; the former route near the lakeshore became just US 33. The MSHD petitioned federal highway officials to switch the Interstate designations west of Grand Rapids, reversing the I-96 and I-196 numbers to their current configurations. After the designation switch was approved in 1963, an additional was opened from the northern end of the freeway near Benton Harbor to Holland as I-196/US 31. The freeway was also extended northward from", "id": "6787854" }, { "contents": "Shoreham, Michigan\n\n\nShoreham is a village in Berrien County in the U.S. state of Michigan. The population was 862 at the 2010 census. The village is located within St. Joseph Charter Township on the shore of Lake Michigan, just south of the City of St. Joseph. According to the United States Census Bureau, the village has a total area of , all land. As of the census of 2010, there were 862 people, 392 households, and 261 families residing in the village. The population density was . There were 471 housing units", "id": "212203" }, { "contents": "Dave Pagel (politician)\n\n\nforty seasons the business has grown to supply fruit grown around Berrien County to grocery stores and farm stands in Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. In addition to the produce packaging and distribution operation, the Pagel family also maintains an orchard of honeycrisp apples across the street. Pagel’s political career began with public service on the school board of Berrien Springs Public School system. As his own children were beginning school in 1993, Pagel was elected to the board and to the presidency of the board. After 14 years of service to", "id": "14462743" }, { "contents": "Georgia State Route 158\n\n\nState Route 158 (SR 158) is a state highway that runs west-to-east through portions of Berrien, Irwin, Coffee, and Ware counties in the south-central and southeastern parts of the U.S. state of Georgia. SR 158 begins at an intersection with US 129/SR 11 (Alapaha Highway), north-northwest of Alapaha, Georgia. It heads east, along part of the Berrien–Irwin county line, and then part of the Coffee–Irwin county line. Along the Coffee–Irwin", "id": "7221687" }, { "contents": "Michiana\n\n\nof these participants are currently from the state of Michigan, although Berrien and Cass Counties were until they along with Van Buren County were combined into their own MPO, what is now called the Southwest Michigan Planning Commission. Indiana Counties Michigan Counties For a complete list, see List of cities and towns in Michiana Greater Michiana includes the following 15 counties in Indiana and Michigan: The Chamber of Commerce of St. Joseph County (Indiana) defines Greater Michiana as \"counties within a 60-mile driving distance to St. Joseph County\" that are not", "id": "21291541" }, { "contents": "Interstate 196\n\n\nfollows Lake Michigan. The freeway starts northeast of Benton Harbor at exit 34 on I-94 in Benton Charter Township in Berrien County. At the trumpet interchange, I-196 runs north from I-94 and passes to the west of the Point O'Woods Golf & Country Club. US 31 joins I-196 from the southwest and runs concurrently with I-196 as the freeway passes through farm fields in southwestern Michigan. The trunkline turns northwesterly near the Lake Michigan Hills Golf Course and crosses the Paw Paw River. Past the river, the freeway turns northeasterly and runs roughly", "id": "13431412" }, { "contents": "John Proos\n\n\nmost of Van Buren Counties. Proos was easily re-elected to represent Michigan's 21st Senate District again earning nearly two-thirds of the total votes cast against his opponent Bette Piermann (D). Because of legislative redistricting, the boundaries of the 21st Senate District had changed to encompass all communities in Berrien, Cass and St. Joseph Counties. Proos served in the Michigan House of Representatives from 2005 - 2010 and was appointed to several House committees during his tenure. These included: Energy and Technology; Agriculture; Education;", "id": "15181060" }, { "contents": "U.S. Route 33 in Michigan\n\n\nUS Highway 33 (US 33) is a part of the United States Numbered Highway System that was once located in Berrien County, Michigan. At the time it was removed from the state, it was only about long running north from the Indiana state line to an intersection with US 12 south of Niles. The highway was not originally part of the US Highway System in the state; it was added in 1938 as a second designation for part of US 31 between the state line and St. Joseph. It was later extended", "id": "1091341" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Antonio Rossi\n\n\nAntonio Rossi (born December 19, 1968) is an Italian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won five medals which included three golds (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-2 1000 m: 1996, 2000), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 2004), and one bronze (K-2 500 m: 1992). Rossi was born in Lecco. As well as the Olympics, he has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven medals", "id": "1738304" }, { "contents": "Krisztián Bártfai\n\n\nKrisztián Bártfai (born July 16, 1974) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2001. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Sydney in 2000. Bártfai also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1995), six silvers (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1995", "id": "8335335" }, { "contents": "Beniamino Bonomi\n\n\nBeniamino Bonomi (born 9 March 1968 in Verbania) is an Italian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (2000: K-2 1000 m) and three silvers (1996: K-1 1000 m, K-2 500 m; 2004: K-2 1000 m). Bonomi also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1995) and six silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1997", "id": "17988280" }, { "contents": "Kay Bluhm\n\n\nKay Bluhm (born 13 October 1968 in Brandenburg) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992), one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996), and one bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1988). Bluhm also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993,", "id": "16031602" }, { "contents": "Daniele Scarpa\n\n\nDaniele Scarpa (born January 3, 1964 in Venice) is an Italian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to 1997. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Atlanta in 1996 with a gold in the K-2 1000 m and a silver in the K-2 500 m events. Scarpa also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m: both 1995), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1993, 1994), and a bronze (", "id": "1738260" }, { "contents": "Anatoly Tishchenko\n\n\nAnatoly Tishchenko (, born 18 July 1970 in Taganrog) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1989 to 2004. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Tishchenko also won a total of fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), four silvers (K-2 200 m", "id": "8820486" }, { "contents": "Maciej Freimut\n\n\nMaciej Freimut (born February 24, 1967) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Freimut also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 200 m: 1994), four silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1989, K-4 10000 m: 1993), and two bronzes", "id": "403033" }, { "contents": "Aneta Konieczna\n\n\nAneta Regina Konieczna née Pastuszka (born 11 May 1978 in Krosno Odrzańskie) is a Polish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-2 500 m event with one silver (2008) and two bronzes (2000, 2004). Konieczna has also been successful at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning sixteen medals. This includes two golds (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999", "id": "1738353" }, { "contents": "Zoltán Kammerer\n\n\nZoltán Kammerer (born 10 March 1978) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the mid-1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004) and a silver medal (K-4 1000 m: 2012). Kammerer also twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 1000 m: 2006, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), four silvers (K-2 500 m: 2009", "id": "1449857" }, { "contents": "Romică Șerban\n\n\nNicu Romică Şerban (born January 18, 1970) is a Romanian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five silvers (K-2 200 m: 1994, 1995, 2003; K-4 500 m: 2001, 2003) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 1999). Şerban also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona", "id": "18531195" }, { "contents": "Oleg Gorobiy\n\n\nOleg Gorobiy (), born 7 February 1971 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from 1990 to 2003. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Gorobiy won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1990, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1995), and five", "id": "22214062" }, { "contents": "Torsten Gutsche\n\n\nTorsten Gutsche (born 8 June 1968 in Eisenhüttenstadt) is an East German-German sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, 1996; K-2 1000 m: 1992) and one silver (K-2 1000 m: 1996). Gutsche also won twenty medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1993, 1994; K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990, 1991", "id": "15026117" }, { "contents": "Sergey Verlin\n\n\nSergey Verlin (Сергей Верлин; born October 12, 1974 in Voronezh) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the mid-to-late 1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Verlin also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1994, 1995), two silvers (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-4 500 m: 1995), and a", "id": "7462660" }, { "contents": "Erik Vlček\n\n\nErik Vlček (born 29 December 1981) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in five Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008, 2016 and a bronze in 2004. Vlček also won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003, 2015; K-2 1000 m: 2011, 2014 and K-2 500 m:", "id": "7186754" }, { "contents": "Michal Riszdorfer\n\n\nMichal Riszdorfer ( ; born 26 May 1977 in Bratislava) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003),", "id": "7186793" }, { "contents": "Ferenc Csipes\n\n\nFerenc Csipes (born 8 March 1965 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from 1985 to 1996. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won four medals with one gold (1988: K-4 1000 m), two silvers (1992, 1996: both K-4 1000 m), and one bronze (1988: K-2 500 m). Csipes also won sixteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships medals with eight golds (K-1 1000 m: 1985, K-1 10000 m: 1986, K-2 500 m: 1987, K-4", "id": "1737979" }, { "contents": "Botond Storcz\n\n\nBotond Storcz (born 30 January 1975) is a retired Hungarian sprint canoeist. He competed at the 2000 and 2004 Olympics and won three gold medals (K-2 500 m: 2000, K-4 1000 m: 2000, 2004). He also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 500 m: 1997, K-1 1000 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999), five silvers (K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1998,", "id": "1449896" }, { "contents": "Herminio Menéndez\n\n\nHerminio Menéndez Rodríguez (born December 20, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won three medals with two silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m, 1980: K-2 500 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Menéndez also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1", "id": "7304864" }, { "contents": "Susanne Rosenqvist\n\n\nSusanne Rosenqvist (born November 26, 1967) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed in the 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-4 500 m event (1992, 1996). Rosenqvist also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995, K-2 5000 m: 1991, K-4 500 m: 1993) and four bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1995, K-4 200 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500", "id": "18838338" }, { "contents": "Andrey Tissin\n\n\nAndrey Tissin (; 5 July 1975 – 1 March 2008) was a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). He won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1999), and a bronze (K-4 500 m: 1998). Tissin also competed in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated in the", "id": "2621605" }, { "contents": "Gabriella Szabó\n\n\nGabriella Szabó (born 14 August 1986) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won the silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Szabó also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 2009, 2010; K-2 1000 m: 2010; K-4 500 m: 2011) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2007). Szabó also won a gold medal at the London Olympics in the Kayak", "id": "2944886" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Ivanik\n\n\nAleksandr Ivanik (born February 26, 1968) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the mid-2000s. He won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 200 m: 1997, K-4 500 m: 1993, 2001; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1999), and four bronzes (K-4 500 m: 2003, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1998, 2001). Ivanik", "id": "17626773" }, { "contents": "Wojciech Kurpiewski\n\n\nWojciech Sławomir Kurpiewski (16 February 1966 – 8 October 2016) was a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. Kurpiewski was born in Nowy Dwór Mazowiecki. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kurpiewski also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1993, K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 1000 m: 1989) and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1989,", "id": "2958716" }, { "contents": "Juraj Bača\n\n\nJuraj Bača (born March 17, 1977 in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Athens in 2004. Bača also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003) and one bronze (K-4 500 m: 2001).", "id": "7186737" }, { "contents": "Knut Holmann\n\n\nKnut Holmann (born 31 July 1968 in Oslo) is a Norwegian sprint canoeist competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won six medals. This included three golds (K-1 500 m: 2000, K-1 1000 m: 1996, 2000), two silvers (K-1 500 m: 1996, K-1 1000 m: 1992), and one bronze (K-1 500 m: 1992). Holmann also won thirteen ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1", "id": "1449769" }, { "contents": "Viktor Denisov\n\n\nViktor Denisov () (born 2 April 1966 in Kalinin), is a Russian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the mid-1990s. He won two silver medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Denisov also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1993, 1994, 1995; K-4 1000 m: 1994), three silvers (K-4", "id": "365487" }, { "contents": "Grzegorz Kotowicz\n\n\nICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-1 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1994) and five bronzes (K-1 500 m: 1999, K-2 1000 m: 1995, 1997; K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1995). Kotowicz won three silver medals at the 1997 European Championship (K-1 200 m, K-1 500 m, K-2 1000 m). At the 1999 edition, he won gold in the K-4 1000 m event with teammates Białkowski,", "id": "350662" }, { "contents": "Per-Inge Bengtsson\n\n\nPer-Inge Bengtsson (born 29 October 1961) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984, earning them in the K-2 500 m and K-4 1000 m events. Bengtsson also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m:", "id": "7304865" }, { "contents": "Stefan Ulm\n\n\nStefan Ulm (born December 21, 1975 in Berlin) is a German sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2004. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silvers in the K-4 1000 m event (2000, 2004). Ulm also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1997, 1998, 2001), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1999, 2002), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m:", "id": "17224465" }, { "contents": "Róbert Hegedűs\n\n\nRóbert Hegedüs (born February 19, 1973) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1990s to early 2000s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with seven golds (K-2 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997), a silver (K-4 200 m: 1997), and two bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 1994). Hegedüs also finished ninth in the K-2 1000", "id": "21974051" }, { "contents": "Andreas Ihle\n\n\nAndreas Ihle (born June 2, 1979 in Bad Dürrenberg, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoer who has competed since 1997. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he has won three medals with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 2008), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 2004) and a bronze (K-2 1000 m: 2012). Ihle also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two gold (K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2001), three silvers", "id": "10707772" }, { "contents": "Luis Gregorio Ramos\n\n\nLuis Gregorio Ramos Misioné (born May 15, 1953) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals with one silvers (1976: K-4 1000 m) and one bronze (1980: K-2 1000 m). Ramos also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1975), a silver (K-4 500 m: 1978), and six bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1975", "id": "8335054" }, { "contents": "Daniel Wełna\n\n\nDaniel Zygmunt Wełna (born 3 December 1955 in Bydgoszcz) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1977), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1979), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1981, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979). Wełna also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish", "id": "8327299" }, { "contents": "Szilvia Szabó\n\n\nSzilvia Szabó (born 24 October 1978, in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1997 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won three silvers (2000: K-2 500 m, K-4 500 m; 2004: K-4 500 m). Szabó has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning nineteen medals. This includes thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 1999, 2002, 2003;", "id": "1449917" }, { "contents": "Artūras Vieta\n\n\nArtūras Vieta (born May 31, 1961) is a Lithuanian sprint canoeist. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), three silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990; K-4 500 m: 1983, K-4 1000 m: 1985), and two bronzes (K-4 1000 m: 1985, 1987). At the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona, he competed for Lithuania", "id": "18260064" }, { "contents": "Caroline Brunet\n\n\nCaroline Brunet (born March 20, 1969 in Quebec City, Quebec) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to 2004. Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won three medals in the K-1 500 m event with two silvers (1996, 2000) and one bronze (2004). Brunet also has won 21 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 200 m: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2003; K-1 500 m: 1997, 1998, 1999; K-1 1000", "id": "5419692" }, { "contents": "József Deme\n\n\nJózsef Deme (born 11 December 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Deme also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 1975, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "7828505" }, { "contents": "Csaba Giczy\n\n\nCsaba Giczy (born 5 August 1945) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1960s to the late 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Mexico City in 1968 with a silver in the K-2 1000 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Giczy also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-4 1000 m: 1973, K-4 10000 m: 1973), three silvers (K-4 10000 m", "id": "7828467" }, { "contents": "Roman Zarubin\n\n\nRoman Zarubin (; born December 4, 1976 in Belaya Kalitva, Rostov) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. He won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 2001), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2001), and three bronzes (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4 500 m: 1998, K-4 1000 m: 2001). Zarubin also competed in two events", "id": "1493339" }, { "contents": "Dariusz Białkowski\n\n\nDariusz Białkowski (born July 16, 1970 in Białogard) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two bronze medals. Kotowicz won them in the K-2 1000 m in 1992 and in the K-4 1000 m in 2000. He represent club Astoria Bydgoszcz. Białkowski also won four bronze medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, earning them in the K-2 1000 m (1995, 1997), K-4 500 m (1995)", "id": "8335208" }, { "contents": "Arnaud Hybois\n\n\nArnaud Hybois (born 26 January 1982 in Pontivy) is a French sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 2000s. He has won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 200 m, K-4 1000 m: both 2010 and K-2 200 m in 2011), a silver (K-1 4 x 200 m, 2014) and two bronze (K-1 4 x 200 m: 2009, K-1 500 m 2013). Hybois also competed in the K-1 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics", "id": "4326158" }, { "contents": "Susanne Gunnarsson\n\n\nSusanne Gunnarsson (née Wiberg; born 8 September 1963 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won three medals with one gold (1996: K-2 500 m) and two silvers (1984: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-2 500 m). Gunnarsson also won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-1 5000 m: 1993), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 1995", "id": "20473804" }, { "contents": "Rita Kőbán\n\n\nRita Kőbán (born 10 April 1965) is a Hungarian sprint canoer. She competed at the 1988, 1992, 1996 and 2000 Olympics and won six medals, with two golds (1992: K-4 500 m, 1996: K-1 500 m), three silvers (1988: K-4 500 m, 1992: K-1 500 m, 2000: K-4 500 m), and one bronze (1992: K-2 500 m). Kőbán has also been successful in the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships collecting 26 medals. This includes nine", "id": "1737949" }, { "contents": "Anton Ryakhov\n\n\nAnton Ryakhov (born May 29, 1980) is an Uzbek-born Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three silvers (K-1 200 m: 2002, K-1 500 m: 2001, 2006) and six bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2001, 2003, 2005; K-1 500 m: 2002, K-2 1000 m: 2010, K-4 1000 m: 2011). Ryakhov also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of", "id": "20013019" }, { "contents": "Beatriz Manchón\n\n\nBeatriz Manchón Portillo (born May 29, 1976 in Sevilla) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the mid-1990s. She won fifteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2002), three silvers (K-2 200 m: 2003, K-4 200 m: 2002, 2003), and ten bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997, 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998,", "id": "3787057" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kirsanov\n\n\nSergey Kirsanov (Сергій Кірсанов) (born January 2, 1963 in Ukraine) is a Soviet and Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Seoul in 1988. Kirsanov also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and two bronzes", "id": "9423035" }, { "contents": "Kalle Sundqvist\n\n\nKarl-Axel \"Kalle\" Sundqvist (born November 29, 1962) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Sundqvist also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 1985), two silvers (K-2 10000 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m: 1987), and seven bronzes (K-1 1000 m: 1985,", "id": "8335146" }, { "contents": "Sonia Molanes\n\n\nSonia Molanes Costa (born May 28, 1980 in Cangas de Morrazo) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed since the early 2000s. She won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 2001, 2002), a silver (K-4 200 m: 2002), and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002; K-2 1000 m: 2001, K-4 500 m: 2002, 2009). At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Molanes finished fifth in", "id": "5242168" }, { "contents": "Joachim Mattern\n\n\nJoachim Mattern (born 2 May 1948 in Beeskow) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals at Montreal in 1976 with a gold in the K-2 500 m and silver in the K-2 1000 m events. Mattern also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1977), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1970), and two bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7304813" }, { "contents": "Gábor Kucsera (canoeist)\n\n\nGábor Kucsera (born 27 August 1982 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since 2005. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m: 2005, 2006), a silver (K-2 500 m: 2009), and three bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2006, 2007; K-2 1000 m: 2007). Kucsera also competed at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, finishing fourth in both the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events. He", "id": "15576364" }, { "contents": "Ramona Portwich\n\n\nRamona Portwich (born 5 January 1967 in Rostock) is an East German-German sprint canoer and marathon canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, she won five medals with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1998, 1996) and two silvers (K-2 500 m: 1992, K-4 500 m: 1996). Portwich also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with thirteen golds (K-2 500 m: 1990, 1991", "id": "20133497" }, { "contents": "Anna Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nAnna Olsson (born 14 March 1964 in Timrå) is a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in five Summer Olympics, she won four medals with one gold (1984: K-2 500 m), one silver (1984: K-4 500 m), and two bronzes (1992 and 1996: both K-4 500 m). Olsson also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1993), three silvers (K-1", "id": "18838334" }, { "contents": "Aneta Michalak\n\n\nAneta Michalak-Białkowska (born August 6, 1977 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005); (K-4 1000 m: 2001) and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 1999, K-4 500 m: 1999). Michalak-Białkowska also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning", "id": "6339531" }, { "contents": "Kinga Bóta\n\n\nKinga Bóta (born 22 August 1977) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1999 to 2005. She won silver medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2004 Summer Olympics in Athens. Bóta has also had outstanding success at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, winning twelve medals. This included ten golds (K-2 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-2 1000 m: 2002, K-4 500 m: 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and two bronzes (K-2", "id": "21446408" }, { "contents": "Meinrad Miltenberger\n\n\nMeinrad Miltenberger (6 December 1924, Herdecke, Westphalia – 10 September 1993, Herdecke) was a German sprint canoer who competed in the 1950s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Melbourne in 1956. Miltenberger also won four medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1958, K-2 500 m: 1954), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1954), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1958", "id": "7828289" }, { "contents": "Mark Zabel\n\n\nMark Zabel (born August 12, 1973 in Calbe, Saxony-Anhalt) is a German sprint canoeist and Surfski Champion. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three medals in the K-4 1000 m event with one gold (1996) and two silvers (2000, 2004). Zabel also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 1998, 1999; K-4 1000 m: 1995, 1997, 1998, 2001), four silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995", "id": "17224904" }, { "contents": "Ákos Vereckei\n\n\nÁkos Vereckei (Sometimes listes as Ákos Vereczkei, born August 26, 1977 in Budapest) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m events (2000, 2004). Vereckei also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1998, 1999, 2001; K-4 500 m: 1997, K-4 1000 m: 1999; K-4 1000 m: 2006), two silvers", "id": "1738314" }, { "contents": "János Rátkai\n\n\nJános Rátkai (born 30 May 1951) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the early 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Munich in 1972. Rátkai also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 1000 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1973), three silvers (K-2 500 m: 1973, 1974; K-4 10000 m: 1977), and three bronzes (K-2 1000 m:", "id": "7828516" }, { "contents": "Thomas Reineck\n\n\nThomas Reineck (born 18 November 1967) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two gold medals in the K-4 1000 m event, earning them in 1992 and 1996. Reineck also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, 1995; K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), three silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, 1995", "id": "18838434" }, { "contents": "André Wohllebe\n\n\nAndré Gerhard Wohllebe (9 January 1962 – 29 December 2014) was an East German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the mid-1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won three medals with a gold (1992: K-4 1000 m) and two bronzes (1988: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m). He was born in Berlin. Wohllebe also won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4", "id": "6868832" }, { "contents": "István Szabó (canoeist)\n\n\nIstván Szabó (born 15 June 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-2 1000 m event with a silver in 1980 and a bronze in 1976. Szabó also won sixteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 1000 m: 1974, 1977; K-2 10000 m: 1975, 1978), six silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1979,", "id": "3078458" }, { "contents": "Rüdiger Helm\n\n\nRüdiger Helm (born in Neubrandenburg on 6 October 1956) was an East German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won six medals which included three golds (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 1000 m, K-4 1000 m) and three bronzes (1976: K-1 500 m, K-4 1000 m; 1980: K-2 500 m). Helm also won 19 medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with ten golds (K-1 1000 m: 1978,", "id": "18776690" }, { "contents": "Lars-Erik Moberg\n\n\nLars-Erik Moberg (born August 7, 1957 in Katrineholm) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won three silver medals at Los Angeles in 1984 by earning them in the K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m, and K-4 500 m events. Möberg also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 1000 m: 1982, 1985), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1987),", "id": "6378291" }, { "contents": "Milko Kazanov\n\n\nMilko Georgiev Kazanov (, sometimes listed as Milko Kazakov, born February 11, 1970 in Rousse) is a Bulgarian sprint canoer who competed from the early 1990s to 2005. Competing in four Summer Olympics, he won a bronze medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Kazanov also won a bronze in the K-4 1000 m event at the 2002 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Seville. He has also won three European Championship medals, two silvers (K-4 500 m, K-4 1000 m) in Zagreb in", "id": "17569207" }, { "contents": "Andreas Stähle\n\n\nAndreas Stähle (born February 14, 1965) is an East German sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. He won two medals at the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul with a silver in the K-1 500 m and a bronze in the K-4 1000 m events. Stähle also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1983, 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1987, K-4 500 m: 1990,", "id": "13796229" }, { "contents": "Sergey Kalesnik\n\n\nSergey Kalesnik (born January 28, 1970) is a Soviet-born Belarusian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-1 200 m: 1994, K-1 500 m: 1990, K-2 500 m: 1990) and three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1995, K-2 500 m: 1989, K-4 1000 m: 1990). Kalesnik also competed in three Summer Olympics under three different nations. At the 1988 Summer", "id": "17626514" }, { "contents": "Juan José Roman\n\n\nJuan José Román Mangas (born December 23, 1962) is a Spanish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-2 1000 m: 1991), and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1993). Román also competed in four Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of fourth in the K-2 500 m event at Barcelona in 1992. As of 2009", "id": "9916243" }, { "contents": "Éva Dónusz\n\n\nÉva Dónusz (born September 29, 1967) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals at Barcelona in 1992 with a gold in the K-4 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 500 m events. Dónusz also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 1994), eight silvers (K-2 500 m: 1989, 1990, 1991; K-2 5000 m: 1990, 1993", "id": "3078753" }, { "contents": "Bernd Olbricht\n\n\nBernd Olbricht (born 17 October 1956 in Gnoien) is an East German sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won four medals with two golds (1976: K-2 500 m, 1980: K-4 1000 m), one silver (1976: K-2 1000 m), and one bronze (1980: K-2 500 m). Olbricht also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1977, 1978; K-4 1000", "id": "7304816" }, { "contents": "Richard Riszdorfer\n\n\nRichard Riszdorfer ( ; born 17 March 1981, in Komárno) is a Slovak sprint canoer who has competed since the late 1990s. Competing in three Summer Olympics, he won two medals in the K-4 1000 m event with a silver in 2008 and a bronze in 2004. Riszdorfer has also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-4 500 m: 2002, 2003, 2006, 2007; K-4 1000 m: 2002, 2003), two silvers (K-4 200 m: 2009, K-4", "id": "7186795" }, { "contents": "Karen Furneaux\n\n\nKaren Furneaux (born December 23, 1976) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who has been competing since 1988. A native of Halifax, Nova Scotia, she won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships. This includes two golds (K-1 200 m: 2001, K-2 200 m: 1998), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 2005, K-2 500 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1997), and four bronzes (K-1 200 m: 2005, 2006; K-1 1000 m: 2005, K-1", "id": "5419457" }, { "contents": "Vasile Dîba\n\n\nVasile Dîba (born 24 July 1954) is a retired Romanian sprint canoeist. Competing in three Summer Olympics in 1976–1984, he won four medals with one gold (1976: K-1 500 m), one silver (1980: K-4 1000 m), and two bronzes (1976: K-1 1000 m, 1980: K-1 500 m). Dîba also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 500 m: 1974, 1977, 1978; K-1 1000 m: 1977, K-1 4×500 m", "id": "8826912" }, { "contents": "Thor Nielsen\n\n\nThor Nielsen (born July 11, 1959) is a Danish sprint and marathon canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the late 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-1 10000 m: 1993, K-2 1000 m: 1994), two silvers (K-1 1000 m: 1993, K-2 10000 m: 1987), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1985). Nielsen also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of sixth twice (K-2 500 m", "id": "5869454" }, { "contents": "György Mészáros\n\n\nGyörgy Mészáros (April 30, 1933 – September 14, 2015) was a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1950s to the early 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two silver medals at Rome in 1960, earning them in the K-1 4 × 500 m and the K-2 1000 m events. Mészáros also won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 1000 m: 1954), three silvers (K-1 4 × 500 m: 1958, K-4 1000 m: 1958,", "id": "7828377" }, { "contents": "Yuliana Salakhova\n\n\nYuliana Salakhova (born December 16, 1984) is a Russian sprint canoer who has competed since the late 2000s. She won two medals at the 2010 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Poznań with a silver in the K-2 500 m and a bronze in the K-2 1000 m events. At the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, Salakhova finished ninth in the K-1 500 m event. In the same event at the 2012 Summer Olympics, she finished nineteenth. However, she was also part of the Russian K-4 500 m team that", "id": "2309945" }, { "contents": "Detlef Hofmann\n\n\nDetlef Hofmann (born 12 November 1963 in Karlsruhe) is a German sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. Hofmann won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1995, K-4 10000 m: 1991) and two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1995, K-4 1000 m: 1991). In May 1992, Hofmann", "id": "18838403" }, { "contents": "Joanna Skowroń\n\n\nJoanna Skowroń (born April 16, 1979 in Gorzów Wielkopolski) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s. She won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 1000 m: 2002), five silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, K-4 200 m: 2005, K-4 500 m: 2003, 2005, K-4 1000 m: 2001) and five bronzes (K-2 500 m: 2003, K-2 1000 m: 2005, K-4 200 m: 2001,", "id": "5242378" }, { "contents": "Attila Ábrahám\n\n\nAttila Ábrahám (born 29 April 1967 in Kapuvár, Győr-Moson-Sopron) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed from the late 1980s to the mid-1990s. Completing in two Summer Olympics, he won a complete set of medals (gold - 1988: K-4 1000 m, silver - 1992: K-4 1000 m, bronze - 1988: K-2 500 m). Ábrahám also won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-2 10000 m: 1989, 1993; K-4 1000 m: 1989,", "id": "3078819" }, { "contents": "Erzsébet Viski\n\n\nErzsébet Viski (born 22 February 1980 in Kismaros) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed from 1998 to 2005. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two silver medals in the K-4 500 m event (2000, 2004). Viski also won fourteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eleven golds (K-4 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 500 m: 1999, 2001, 2002, 2003; K-4 1000 m: 2001, 2005) and three bronzes (K-1", "id": "1738326" }, { "contents": "Renn Crichlow\n\n\nRenn Crichlow (born May 9, 1968) is a Canadian sprint kayaker who competed from the late 1980s to the late 1990s. He won a complete set of medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with gold (K-1 500 m: 1991), a silver (K-1 500 m: 1993), and a bronze (K-1 200 m: 1995). Crichlow also competed in three Summer Olympics, earning his best finish of seventh in the K-4 1000 m event at Atlanta in 1996. Crichlow was born in Ottawa", "id": "19691688" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Bobrezhov\n\n\nVladimir Bobrezhov (sometimes listed as Vladimir Borbreshov, born April 14, 1968) is a Soviet sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. He won five medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-4 10000 m: 1989, 1990), two silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1989, 1990), and a bronze (K-4 10000 m: 1993). Bobrezhov also competed for the Unified Team at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-4 1000 m event, but was", "id": "9698357" }, { "contents": "Gunnar Olsson (canoeist)\n\n\nGunnar Olsson (born April 26, 1960) is a Swedish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Olsson also won a silver medal in the K-2 10000 m event in Copenhagen at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and two bronze medals in the K-4 10000 m event in Poznan 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships and in the K-2 1000 m event in Copenhagen 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World", "id": "8335159" }, { "contents": "Anna Wood (kayaker)\n\n\nAnna Wood (born Annemarie Cox on 22 July 1966) is a Dutch-born Australian sprint canoeist who competed from the early 1980s to the early 2000s (decade). Competing in four Summer Olympics, she won two bronze medals in the K-2 500 m, earning them in 1988 with the Netherlands and 1996 with Australia. Wood also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1998, K-2 1000 m: 1998, 1999), four silvers (K-1 5000 m:", "id": "8658488" }, { "contents": "Peter Ribe\n\n\nPeter Ribe (born November 7, 1966) is a Norwegian sprint canoer who competed in the early to mid-1990s. He won a bronze medal in the K-2 10000 m event at the 1993 ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships in Copenhagen. Ribe also competed at the 1992 Summer Olympics in Barcelona in the K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m events, but did not make the final of either event. He was eliminated in the repechage round of the K-2 500 m event and in the semifinal round of the K-2 1000 m event.", "id": "12779530" }, { "contents": "Aleksandr Motuzenko\n\n\nAleksandr Motuzenko (born July 11, 1967) is a Soviet-born Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1980s and early 1990s. At the 1988 Summer Olympics in Seoul, he won a silver medal in the K-4 1000 m event. Motuzenko also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-4 500 m: 1987, 1989, 1990), two silver (K-4 500 m: 1986, K-4 1000 m: 1990), and a bronze (K-4 1000 m: 1987)", "id": "9423019" }, { "contents": "Lars Glasser\n\n\nLars Glasser (October 4, 1925 – January 15, 1999) was a Swedish sprint canoeist who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won the silver medal in the K-2 1000 m event at the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki. Glasser also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with five golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1948, 1950, 1954; K-2 500 m: 1950, K-2 1000 m: 1950) and one silver (K-1 500 m: 1948). Note that", "id": "7828269" }, { "contents": "Géza Csapó\n\n\nGéza Csapó (born December 29, 1950) is a Hungarian sprint canoeist who competed in the 1970s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won two medals in K-1 1000 m event with a silver in 1976 and a bronze in 1972. Csapó also won eleven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with six golds (K-1 500 m: 1973, 1975; K-1 1000 m: 1973, 1974; K-1 4 x 500 m: 1971, K-2 10000 m: 1973), two silvers (K-1 500 m:", "id": "6868705" }, { "contents": "Frank Fischer\n\n\nFrank Fischer is an East German sprint canoer who competed from 1981 to 1986. He won nine medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-2 500 m: 1983, K-2 1000 m: 1983, K-4 500 m: 1985, 1986), three silvers (K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1986; K-4 500 m: 1982), and two bronzes (K-2 500 m: 1981, K-4 1000 m: 1985). Fischer's wife, Sarina, won a gold medal in women's swimming", "id": "1194558" }, { "contents": "Herbert Klepp\n\n\nHerbert Klepp (born May 14, 1923) is an Austrian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1940s and early 1950s. He won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1948) and two bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m and K-4 1000 m: both 1950). Klepp also competed at the 1948 Summer Olympics in London, earning his best finish tenth in the K-1 10000 m event. He also competed in the K-2 1000 m event, but was eliminated in", "id": "13226724" }, { "contents": "Éva Rakusz\n\n\nÉva Rakusz (born 13 May 1961 in Miskolc) is a Hungarian sprint canoer who competed in the 1980s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, she won two medals with a silver (K-4 500 m: 1988) and a bronze (K-2 500 m: 1980). Rakusz also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 500 m: 1986), three silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-2 500 m: 1985, K-4 500 m: 1987), and three bronzes", "id": "3078489" }, { "contents": "Natalya Gouilly\n\n\nNatalya Gouilly (sometimes listed as Nataliya Guly, born August 19, 1974) is a Russian sprint canoer who competed in the late 1990s and early 2000s (decade). She won three medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a silver (K-4 200 m: 1999) and two bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 1998). Gouilly also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of seventh on two occasions (K-4 500 m: 1996, K-4 500 m: 2000", "id": "6743892" }, { "contents": "Adam Wysocki\n\n\nAdam Wysocki (born December 27, 1974) is a Polish sprint canoeist who competed from 1994 to 2008. He has won eighteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1994, K-2 500 m: 1999), ten silvers (K-2 200 m: 2002, 2003, 2006; K-2 500 m: 2002, 2005; K-2 1000 m: 1999, K-4 200 m: 1994, K-4 1000 m: 1994, 2006, 2007), and five bronzes (K-2 200", "id": "12393733" }, { "contents": "Ryszard Oborski\n\n\nRyszard Oborski (born May 2, 1952 in Poznań) is a Polish sprint canoer who competed from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. He won ten medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with three golds (K-2 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1977, K-4 1000 m: 1977), two silvers (K-4 1000 m: 1979, K-4 10000 m: 1981), and five bronzes (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1974, K-4 500 m: 1978, 1979; K-4 10000 m: 1974", "id": "16431136" }, { "contents": "Oleksiy Slivinskiy\n\n\nOleksiy Slivinsky (born August 8, 1972) is a Ukrainian sprint canoer who competed from the late 1990s to the mid-2000s (decade). He won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-4 200 m: 2003), three silvers (K-1 200 m: 1998, 1999, 2001), and two bronzes (K-1 200 m: 1997, K-4 200 m: 2001). Slivinskiy also competed in the K-4 1000 m event at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta, but was eliminated", "id": "367462" }, { "contents": "Ion Bîrlădeanu\n\n\nIon Bîrlǎdeanu (born 1 August 1958) is a retired Romanian sprint kayaker. He won a bronze medal in the K-1 1000 m event at the 1980 Olympics, placing sixth in the doubles. He also won seven medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with a gold (K-2 10000 m: 1979), five silvers (K-1 500 m: 1981, K-1 1000 m: 1979, 1981; K-2 500 m: 1978, K-4 1000 m: 1978), and one bronze (K-2 10000 m: 1981)", "id": "6868721" }, { "contents": "Haralambie Ivanov\n\n\nHaralambie Ivanov (23 February 1941 – 22 August 2004) was a Romanian sprint canoeist who competed in the mid to late 1960s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a silver in the K-4 1000 m event at Mexico City in 1968. Ivanov also won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-1 4 x 500 m: 1963, K-2 500 m: 1963, K-2 1000 m: 1963, K-4 1000 m: 1966), a silver (K-4 1000 m: 1963),", "id": "9422221" }, { "contents": "Nicole Reinhardt\n\n\nNicole Reinhardt (born 2 January 1986 in Lampertheim, Hesse) is a German sprint canoer who competed since 2003. She won a gold medal in the K-4 500 m event at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing. Reinhardt also won thirteen medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with eight golds (K-1 500 m: 2005, 2011, K-2 200 m: 2007, K-1 4 × 200 m: 2009, 2010, 2011, K-2 500 m: 2007, K-4 200 m: 2005) and five silvers (K-2", "id": "2944894" }, { "contents": "Vladimir Parfenovich\n\n\nVladimir Vladimirovich Parfenovich (; , ; born 2 December 1958) is a retired Belarusian sprint canoer and politician. Parfenovich competed for the Soviet Union at the Moscow Olympics and became the first canoer to win all three events he entered: K-1 500 m, K-2 500 m and K-2 1000 m. He also won twelve medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships, with nine golds (K-1 500 m: 1979, 1981–1983; K-2 500 m: 1979, 1981, 1982; K-2 1000 m: 1981, 1982) and three silvers", "id": "4368848" }, { "contents": "Oliver Kegel\n\n\nOliver Kegel (born 14 June 1961 in Berlin) is a West German-German sprint canoeist who competed from the mid-1980s to the early 1990s. Competing in two Summer Olympics, he won a gold medal in the K-4 1000 m event at Barcelona in 1992. Kegel also won eight medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with four golds (K-4 500 m: 1991, K-4 1000 m: 1993, K-4 10000 m: 1991, 1993), two silvers (K-4 500 m: 1993, K-4 1000 m:", "id": "9423055" }, { "contents": "Izaskun Aramburu\n\n\nIzaskun Aramburu Balda (born December 29, 1975) is a Spanish sprint canoer who has competed from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s (decade). She won six medals at the ICF Canoe Sprint World Championships with two golds (K-2 200 m: 1999, 2001), and four bronzes (K-2 200 m: 1998, K-2 500 m: 1997;, K-4 500 m: 1997, 1998). Aramburu also competed in two Summer Olympics, earning her best finish of sixth on two occasions (K-2 500 m", "id": "3787092" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nchart. He also received production credits on Queen's third and fourth studio albums: \"Diva\" (2003) and \"Real\" (2004). \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending", "id": "18697997" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6, not being able to reach \"Diva\"'s peak position of #1. \"Flashback\", a retrospective of Queen's previous hits along with a few new ones featured \"Quiero Saber\" which is credited to Gran Omar. In its first week of release, \"Flashback\" scanned 5000 sales; however failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. As of March 2007, the album has scanned over 104,000 sales in the United States and Puerto Rico", "id": "18697999" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nfour nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. While, \"Real\", on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, peaked at #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard", "id": "18697998" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nnon-consecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" peaked #25, one position higher than \"Diva\". On the Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4, her highest peak on the chart with \"Diva\" reaching the same position, while spending a total of 17 consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #6. Queen was", "id": "8822718" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible. Omar is credited with the following songs: \"Baila Así\", \"Dee Jay\", the fourth single from \"Diva\" \"Guillaera\", \"Matando\", \"Money Making\", and the second single from Tony Touch's album \"The ReggaeTony Album\": \"Saca La Semilla\". Following his divorce from Ivy Queen in 2005 and their nine-year marriage, he formed a reggaeton/hip-", "id": "18698001" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Diva\" peaked at number four on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, \"Diva\" peaked at number one, spending four nonconsecutive weeks at the top with a total of 86 weeks on the chart, becoming the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004. This also made Queen the eighth best-performing Tropical Artist of 2004 as well. In 2005, the album managed to peak at number seventeen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. On the", "id": "8822490" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nalbums to be eligible to appear on the chart. In terms of chart performance, \"Diva\" was a commercial success. It was her first commercially successful album, peaking at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the album peaked at #8. On the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart, the album peaked at #4. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album peaked at #1, spending four", "id": "8822717" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nalone. It was able to break their peak at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart when it reached #10. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached #7. It reached #2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached #3 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming their debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón albums could no longer appear on the", "id": "18698000" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, \"Real\" debuted at number twenty-nine and peaked at number twenty-five, one position lower than \"Diva\"s peak at twenty-four. It ended its chart run at number sixty-nine on February 26, 2005. On the Reggae Albums chart the album debuted at number four, sharing its peak with \"Diva\" and spending seventeen consecutive weeks on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted (and peaked", "id": "8822542" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n, with Queen's \"Flashback\" being in the best seller of the six. On \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, the album reached number seven. It reached number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers charts for the Pacific and South Atlantic areas. It reached number three on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums becoming her debut on the newly instated chart. After this chart was instated, it was revealed that reggaetón titles could no longer appear on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums", "id": "8822607" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\nand \"Flashback\" (2005). These albums have been met with commercial and critical success within the Latin community. Several singles from these albums have featured Gran Omar including \"Quiero Saber\" and \"Guillaera\" among others. They met while in the all-male hip-hop group \"The Noise\". He received his first single release writing credit on Ivy Queen's debut single \"In The Zone\" featuring Wyclef Jean in 1998. The song peaked at #38 on the \"Billboard\" Rhythmic Top 40", "id": "18697996" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n\"Tu No Puedes\". Three of these are on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\". Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at #24 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #8 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums and #1 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Real\" was released on November 16, 2004, through Universal Latino. Queen collaborated with several top-name", "id": "8822702" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nsuccessful in the Latin market, the album peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, becoming her highest peak on that chart, until 2007 when her sixth studio album reached number four. Despite selling 5,000 copies in its first week, it failed to debut on the \"Billboard\" 200. It also reached number seven on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart, number two on both the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (Pacific) and \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart.", "id": "8822571" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nlater, it reached the peak position of #55. It became Ivy Queen's second album to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart after \"Flashback\" (2005) reached #3 on the chart, while her following studio album, \"Sentimiento\", (2007) reached #1 on the chart two years later. The \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart along with the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart were introduced after both \"Diva\" and \"Real\" were released deeming the two", "id": "8822716" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nTu No Puedes\", and \"Súbelo\", which were released over the course of three years. \"Quiero Bailar\" became a commercial success and her first big hit in the United States and Puerto Rico, while the other six singles failed to acquire chart success on national charts. Highly anticipated and acclaimed, \"Diva\" peaked at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers chart for the South Atlantic area, number four on the \"", "id": "8822468" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nof \"Latina\" magazine. The album was nominated for \"Reggaeton Album of the Year\" at the 2005 \"Billboard\" Latin Music Awards where she was also nominated for \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, Female\" and \"Tropical Airplay Track of the Year, New Artist\". \"Diva\" was a commercial success, peaking at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart. On the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers (South Atlantic) chart, the recording peaked at number eight.", "id": "8822489" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\n, \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Dile\", both of which are on \"Real\", peaked at #25 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, and #6 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Dile\" peaked at #8 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, the former was unable to acquire chart success. The album was re-released on September 25, 2007, through Machete Music.", "id": "8822704" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n's raspy vocals and production quality, whilst others criticized the lack of instrumentation. Spawning four singles (\"Chika Ideal\", \"Rociarlos\", \"Dile\", and \"Angel Caído\"), \"Real\" peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart and number six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. \"Chika Ideal\" and \"Rociarlos\" failed to attain chart success, although the former reached the", "id": "8822516" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\ncharts, deeming \"Flashback\" ineligible for the charts in which Queen had previously appeared on. Still, however, Queen was unable to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 until 2007, when her sixth studio album, \"Sentimiento\" reached number 105 on the chart. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Cuéntale\" peaked at #3 for the week of November 19, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #4 for the week of November 12,", "id": "8822608" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the week of 7 February 2004, the album debuted at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, becoming the charts \"Hot Shot Debut\". On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it debuted at number one for the week of 7 February 2004. Ironically, two weeks later, the album was displaced by Ivy Queen's \"Diva Platinum Edition\". The two releases exchanged positions over the subsequent weeks. It also managed to debut and peak at number eighteen on the \"Billboard\"", "id": "20730677" }, { "contents": "Real (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n) at number six, failing to match \"Diva\"s peak position at the top. It fell off the chart after being number eighteen for the week of April 9, 2005. At the time \"Diva\" was still on the countdown at number twenty, to be displaced two weeks later by Marc Anthony's 2004 \"Valio La Pena\". In 2005, the album managed to peak at number nineteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Sales were boosted by \"distribution by Universal Music & Video Distribution,", "id": "8822543" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\non September 25, 2005 as the lead single from the album, preceding \"Saca La Semilla\" with Ivy Queen and Gran Omar. The song, however, was already \"bubbling up the charts\" prior to its official release. It was also later included on Nina Sky's second studio album \"La Conexion\" (2005) among other albums. It reached the Top 15 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, peaking at #13 and Top 25 on the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot R&B", "id": "13744930" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nBillboard\" Reggae Albums and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the eighth best-selling Tropical Album of 2004, while the recording helped Queen to become the eighth best-selling Tropical Artist of that year. The album was recognized as a \"door-opener\" for reggaetón's mainstream exposure in 2004. After the failed commercial success of Ivy Queen's first two studio albums, \"En Mi Imperio\" (1997) and \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), she was", "id": "8822469" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2003 and peaked at number twenty-four for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-six on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at number sixteen for the week of July 9, 2005. It became the first Spanish-language track to reach number one on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio station based in Miami, Florida", "id": "8822492" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nStates and Puerto Rico alone. It became her best-selling album until \"Sentimiento\" (2007). It was able to break Queen's peak at number twenty-four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart when it reached number ten. At the time, the album was among few noncompilations releases (aside from Daddy Yankee) that were able to chart on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart since the summer of 2005. These included releases by Yaga & Mackie, Angel & Khriz, Tony Touch and Bimbo", "id": "8822606" }, { "contents": "Toby Love (album)\n\n\n\" Heatseekers Albums chart and number eleven on \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The album spawned three singles, with the lead single, \"Tengo Un Amor\", becoming a success, in the Latin market, reaching number one in the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the top three of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts, while peaking at number 100 on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart in the United States. \"Toby Love\" was awarded a \"", "id": "13253381" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n#37 on the week of December 20, 2003 and peaked at #24 for the issue dated January 17, 2004 on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. The song re-entered the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart under the name \"Quiero Bailar\" at #36 on the week of March 6, 2004 and peaked at #16 for the week of July 9, 2005. The song became the first Spanish-language track to reach #1 on Miami's WPOW Rhythmic Top 40, an American radio", "id": "8822613" }, { "contents": "The Best of Ivy Queen\n\n\nThe albums are regarded as a factor in reggaetón mainstream exposure to English-speaking markets in 2004 along with other albums by Daddy Yankee and Tego Calderón. \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" reached #55 on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, while reaching #13 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. The five tracks on \"The Best of Ivy Queen\" which were originally from \"Diva\" were recorded between 2000 and 2003. These are \"Papi Te Quiero\" from the platinum edition of", "id": "8822705" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nIt reached number three on the newly instated \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, making the album ineligible for the Tropical Albums and Reggae Albums charts, which had previously been dominated by Queen. The album was met with generally positive reviews from music critics, who praised its lyrical content and musical production whilst some noticed that Queen's 1998 duet with Haitian rapper Wyclef Jean, \"In The Zone\", was missing from the track list. Critics also noted that there was scarce new material to be found on the album,", "id": "8822572" }, { "contents": "Room to Breathe (Reba McEntire album)\n\n\nofficially released November 18, 2003, reaching #4 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart and peaking at #25 on the \"Billboard\" 200 all-genres list with first week sales of 72,297, spending four weeks on the chart, making its last appearance there in January 2004. The album's second single was released in 2004; \"Somebody\" reached #1 on the Hot Country Songs chart and #35 on the \"Billboard Hot 100\". It was followed by \"He Gets That from Me", "id": "12782129" }, { "contents": "Tour Generación RBD En Vivo\n\n\nUnited States. The album reached number one on the Mexican Albums Chart and was certified platinum + gold for sales of 150,000 copies. In the United States, the album reached  29 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart, managing to stay on the chart for eight weeks. On the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, it reached No. 22 and remained there for 33 weeks, while on \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums it peaked at No. 6 and spent 28 weeks on the chart. The RIAA", "id": "1505647" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nhad potential to chart of the \"Billboard\" Hot 100 chart, technically peaking on that chart at #114. \"Libertad\" peaked at #13 of the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart for the week of April 6, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay chart, the song peaked at #12 for the week of April 1, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song also peaked at #12 for the week of March 25, 2006. On the", "id": "8822610" }, { "contents": "Don Omar Presents: Meet the Orphans\n\n\nBillboard’s Top Latin Albums charts, and became his seventh top ten album and his sixth highest album debut on the top ten, it also debuted at #1 on Billboard’s Latin Rhythm Albums charts and at #8 on Billboard’s Top Rap Albums charts. According to Universal Music Latino, the album certified platinum after its first week sales in Southern California. On the Mexican Albums Chart the album debuted at #81. The following week the album jumped at #69, and peaked at #47. Prior to the", "id": "2270676" }, { "contents": "En Vogue discography\n\n\non \"Billboard\"s Hot R&B Songs chart. The band's second album, \"Funky Divas\", was released in March 1992. It debuted at number one on the US Top R&B Albums chart, and at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200, while peaking at number four on the UK Albums Chart. It reached triple platinum status in the US, where it sold 3.5 million copies, becoming the seventh highest-selling R&B albums of the year as well as En Vogue's biggest-selling album to date.", "id": "43092" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nas the lead single from Queen's first live album, \"Ivy Queen 2008 World Tour LIVE!\" (2008) in both bachaton and bachata versions. It peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, number four on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart, and number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart. It spent seven consecutive weeks atop the chart. Héctor Acosta's \"Sin Perdon\" originates from his second studio album \"Mitad/Mitad\" (2008). It", "id": "88443" }, { "contents": "Diva (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at number thirty-five for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at number twenty-nine for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at number thirty-seven on the week of December 20,", "id": "8822491" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nyears earlier on a different label. Selling more than 3,000 units in its first week, \"Drama Queen\" debuted and peaked at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and number 18 on the \"Billboard\" Rap Albums chart. The recording received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2011 and two nominations at the Billboard Latin Music Awards of", "id": "13406415" }, { "contents": "Give It All Away (Ben Jelen album)\n\n\nGive It All Away is the debut album by Scottish-American singer/songwriter Ben Jelen, released in 2004 via Maverick Records. The lead single, \"Come On\", peaked at #58 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Singles Sales chart and failed to appear on the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, despite Jelen being featured on TRL in January 2004. \"Give It All Away\" subsequently debuted and peaked at #113 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart, #1 on \"Billboard\"'s Top Heatseekers", "id": "4142437" }, { "contents": "Beautiful Surprise\n\n\nand peaked at number 23 on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart with first week sales of 13,000 copies. In addition, the album reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, peaking at number 4 on number 6, respectively. It marked her highest-charting entry after 2004's \"More\". Commenting on its commercial success, Tamia elaborated, \"considering I don't have a television show or anything else like that pushing the music", "id": "8567708" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\ncertified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) on March 24, 1993. \"Billboard\" ranked \"Funky Divas \" 25th on its \"Billboard\" 200 year-end chart, while ranking it seventh on the Top R&B Albums year-end chart. As of 2018, it remain En Vogue's highest-peaking album on both charts. Internationally, \"Funky Divas\" reached the top forty of the national album charts in Canada, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and Sweden. A steady seller", "id": "16566892" }, { "contents": "Musa (album)\n\n\nand \"Drama Queen\" (2010). The recording produced four singles. \"Peligro De Extinción\" was released as the lead single on June 19, 2012. It peaked at number 18, 21, and 84 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay, \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Digital Songs, and \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs charts respectively. \"Musa\" debuted and peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart and number four on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. It", "id": "21212729" }, { "contents": "Sentimiento (album)\n\n\n\" (2006), a compilation album presented by Queen and Omar was released. Its lead single, \"No Hacen Na\" was performed by Queen and was released in July 2006. It peaked at number twenty-five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and number thirty on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. However, Navarro later stated that Queen had tricked him, and that she owed him money from the sales and production of the album . No legal action was taken, however. Navarro was", "id": "1962517" }, { "contents": "Babylon (Skindred album)\n\n\nby Korn. Two singles were released: \"Nobody\" and \"Pressure\", for which music videos were produced. \"Babylon\" has been well received by critics for its fusion of alternative metal and reggae. In 2004, the album peaked at #1 on the \"Billboard\" Top Reggae Albums chart, #5 on the Top Heatseekers chart and at #189 on the \"Billboard\" 200. In 2006, the album again ranked at #1 on the Top Reggae Albums chart. Singer Benji Webbe formed Skindred", "id": "211215" }, { "contents": "The Preacher's Wife (soundtrack)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on the issue dated December 14, 1996, selling 90,500 units in the first week. On its second week, the album jumped to number four on the chart with the Greatest Gainer mark, and the following week reached number three, which was the album's peak position. The album also debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Top R&B Albums chart, and in three weeks later, peaked at the number one and remained there for two weeks, becoming her fourth number one album", "id": "8101147" }, { "contents": "Todo a Su Tiempo (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n\", reached number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and became his fourth single to reach number one on the \"Tropical Songs\" chart. The fifth single, \"Llegaste a Mi\", reached number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and spent two weeks number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"Hasta Ayer\" was the sixth single to be released from the album. It peaked at number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and was number one on the", "id": "11150772" }, { "contents": "Have One on Me\n\n\npeaked at number 16 on the \"Top Digital Albums\" chart and at number 7 on the \"Independent Albums\" chart. On the \"Billboard\" 200 it debuted and peaked at number 75, selling more than five thousand copies, making it not only her highest charting album, but also her best first week sales yet. It also debuted and peaked atop of the \"Folk Albums\", making \"Have One on Me\" her second album to reach the top spot of a Billboard chart. A week later it", "id": "8732558" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\nLatin Albums chart and number five on the Tropical Albums chart. It featured one single, \"Polos Opuesto\" which reached the top ten of the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, peaking at number seven. Monchy & Alexandra's final studio album, \"Hasta El Fin\" (2004) became their first album to enter the \"Billboard\" 200 when it entered at number 192. It peaked at number seven on the Top Latin Albums chart, giving the duo their first number-one album on the Tropical/Salsa Albums", "id": "20878563" }, { "contents": "I'm Yours (Sizzla album)\n\n\nI'm Yours is a studio album by Jamaican Reggae musician Sizzla. It was released on August 11, 2017 and produced by JonFX. It features 11 tracks and was supported by the lead single I'm yours. It includes a guest appearance from Stonebwoy and Mz Vee. The album experiments with a variety of genres, such as afro pop, tropical house, and ska. The album peaked at number 2 on the US Billboard Charts Top Reggae Albums and number 4 on US Billboard Heatseekers Albums (South Atlantic) Charts first", "id": "7473661" }, { "contents": "Dawn (Dawn Robinson album)\n\n\ntry new things and put her name on the line as she searches for songs that work.\" A commercial disappointment, \"Dawn\" failed to enter both the US \"Billboard\" 200 and the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It however debuted and peaked at number 22 on \"Billboard\"s Heatseekers Albums chart for the week of February 16, 2002, and reached number 50 on the New Zealand Albums Chart. The set's first and only single \"Envious\" was released to radio on September 18, 2001", "id": "1768348" }, { "contents": "What Were You Hoping For?\n\n\nHoping For?\" peaked at number 19 on the \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums, which is a weekly music chart that ranks top-selling albums by new or developing acts, defined as those who have never appeared in the top 100 of the \"Billboard\" 200 or in the top 10 of \"Billboard\"s component charts. The album also reached number 50 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. All songs were written, arranged, and produced by Van Hunt. Credits for \"What Were You Hoping", "id": "9694818" }, { "contents": "The Song Remembers When\n\n\nbecoming her first single to chart within the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at #82. The album's second and final single, \"Better Your Heart Than Mine\" was released in 1994, becoming her first single to miss the Top 20, reaching #21. \"The Song Remembers When\" reached a peak of #6 on the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, while also peaking at #40 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart as well. In December 1993, the album was certified", "id": "9332919" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\npeaked at #26 on the week of January 07, 2006. On the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, \"Quiero Bailar\" debuted at #35 for the week of September 3, 2005, becoming the \"Hot Shot Debut\" of that week and peaked at #29 for the week of September 17, 2005. While on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, it peaked at number eight for the week of October 29, 2005. It debuted under the name \"Yo Quiero Bailar\" at", "id": "8822612" }, { "contents": "Regalo del Alma\n\n\nSongs chart. It led the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart for eleven weeks in 2003. The latter reached number twenty-five and number two on the Latin Song and Tropical Songs charts, respectively. Selling 24,000 copies in its first week, the recording peaked at number forty on the \"Billboard\" 200 and number one on both the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums charts. \"Regalo del Alma\" was awarded the Latin Grammy Award for Best Salsa Album. It also received the Grammy Award", "id": "10943691" }, { "contents": "P.A.R.C.E.\n\n\nMi Sangre\" and \"La vida... es un ratico,\" charted within the Top 40 of the album chart as well as the peak position of the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums. \"P.A.R.C.E\" peaked at #2 of the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums Chart behind fellow Colombian singer Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\", which was in its eighth week of charting in the #1 position. It also arrived at #2 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums, again behind Shakira. The album", "id": "5208284" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\nspot on the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums on the week of April 23, 2011. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, the album debuted at number 2 on the week of March 20, 2010. The album peaked at number one on the Tropical Albums chart on the week of September 18, 2010 where it spent a total of fifty-three weeks on top. The album peaked at number 77 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart during the first week of April 2011 and remained on the chart", "id": "20015058" }, { "contents": "The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Pt. 2\n\n\nto enter the chart. The album also peaked at number one on both the Billboard World Albums and Heatseekers Albums charts. BTS became the first K-pop act to have the same album spend more than one week on top of the Billboard World Albums chart, with four weeks at number one overall. The album continued to chart on the Billboard World Albums Chart for a total of 22 weeks. \"The Most Beautiful Moment in Life, Part 2\" ranked number four on \"Billboard\"s list of \"The 10 Best K", "id": "9019308" }, { "contents": "La Diva (Aretha Franklin album)\n\n\n#146 on \"Billboard\"s album chart and sold less than 75,000 copies in the United States. It stands as the lowest charting and poorest selling album of Aretha's entire Atlantic Records catalogue. \"Ladies Only\" only reached #33 on \"Billboard\"s R&B singles chart while the follow-up, \"Half A Love\", stalled at #65. This album was recorded at Aretha's vocal peak and features three of her own compositions, as well as a song by her eldest son Clarence Franklin. Although remembered as Aretha", "id": "9171440" }, { "contents": "Me and Mr. Johnson\n\n\nalbum sold 128,000 copies in its first week in the United States, peaking at number six on the \"Billboard\" 200 pop albums chart in 2004. The album reached the same position on the magazine's Top Internet Albums chart and topped the \"Billboard\" Blues albums chart for a total of eleven weeks and stayed 90 weeks on the chart. While charting on the Top 200 albums chart in its twelfth week, \"Me and Mr. Johnson\" became the week's greatest gainer with sales of 17,000 copies in July 2004.", "id": "10649038" }, { "contents": "Monchy & Alexandra discography\n\n\n\" the duo's follow-up effort was released in 2002 and produced two top-ten singles on the Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart: \"Te Quiero Igual Que Ayer\" and \"Dos Locos,\" with the former reaching the number two position. The album peaked at number eight and number two on the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Albums charts, respectively. 2003 saw the release of their first remix album, \"The Mix.\" It reached number fifty on the Top", "id": "20878562" }, { "contents": "You Make It Feel Like Christmas\n\n\n\"biggest gainer\" in terms of sales. It also improved its peak position on several component charts, reaching number nine on the Top Album Sales chart and number seven on the Digital Albums chart. Overall, the album spent a total of thirteen weeks on the \"Billboard\" 200 chart. In Canada, the album peaked on the \"Billboard\" Canadian Albums chart at number 24 on the week ending December 30, 2017, making it her fourth top 40 album on the Nielsen-tracked chart. Outside of North America", "id": "16605822" }, { "contents": "Adentro\n\n\n\" became Arjona's third studio album to debut inside the top five of the US \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts, at numbers three and two, respectively. It equaled the peak position of \"Santo Pecado\" (2002) on the Latin Albums chart, and bested that album's peak on the Latin Pop Albums chart. \"Adentro\" also peaked at number 46 on the Top Heatseekers chart, and debuted at number 126 on the \"Billboard\" 200, besting the previous record held by \"", "id": "18320023" }, { "contents": "Casi Te Envidio\n\n\nalbum, \"Musa\". The album peaked at number fifteen on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart. Upon its release, the album remained within the five best-selling albums of the urban genre, in the United States and Puerto Rico, according to SoundScan monitoring services of the recognized measurement firm Nielsen. However, it was the lowest first week sales for Queen since the release of her fourth studio album \"Real\" in 2004. It still,", "id": "20575555" }, { "contents": "Jessi Colter\n\n\nsong was Colter's breakthrough single; it reached No. 1 on the Billboard Country Chart and peaked at No. 4 on the Billboard Pop Chart, becoming a crossover hit in 1975. Her second album, titled \"I'm Jessi Colter\" was also released that year and reached No. 1 on the Cashbox Top Country Albums chart, No. 4 on the Billboard Country Albums Chart and No. 50 on the \"Billboard\" 200 Top 100 Pop Albums chart. The follow-up single from that same album \"", "id": "13756114" }, { "contents": "Prince Royce (album)\n\n\n8. \"Corazón Sin Cara\" was released as the album's second single and made available for digital download on February 9, 2010. It was Royce's second consecutive number one song on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. It also reached the number one song on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, becoming his first song to top the chart. According to \"Billboard\", it was the best-performing Latin single of 2011. The album's third single \"El Amor Que Perdimos\", peaked", "id": "20015061" }, { "contents": "Jim Jones (rapper)\n\n\n84. The album peaked at number 18 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on \"Billboard\"'s Independent Albums chart, and number four on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. \"\", Jones' second album, reached number five on the \"Billboard\" 200 and topped the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums and Independent Albums charts, selling 350,000 copies. Three of its singles placed on the \"Billboard\" R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart: \"Baby Girl\"", "id": "4660974" }, { "contents": "Babymetal (album)\n\n\nWeekly Albums chart for the week of March 10, 2014 with first-week sales of 37,463 copies, and number one on the Oricon Daily Albums chart on March 1, 2014. The album also peaked at number two on the \"Billboard Japan\" Top Albums Sales chart, with first-week sales of 31,000 copies. In the United States, the album peaked at number 187 on the \"Billboard\" 200 for the week of March 22, 2014, and number four on the \"Billboard\" Heatseekers chart. In", "id": "3301760" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's\n\n\n(2004). It managed to make the \"Billboard\" Hot 100, peaking at number ninety-two on the chart. It topped the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart and reached the number three spot on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart. \"Paso A Paso\" is from the Alex Bueno album \"Bachata A Su Tiempo\" (1998). Monchy & Alexandra make their second appearance on the album with \"Hasta El Fin\" from the album of the same name. Nominated for a Billboard Latin Music", "id": "13097771" }, { "contents": "A Christmas Celebration of Hope\n\n\nadapted from Allmusic. Credits adapted from Allmusic. In the United States, \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" reached peak positions of number 151 on the \"Billboard\" 200, number one on \"Billboard\" Top Blues Albums chart and number 21 on the Top Holiday Albums chart. The album marked King's fourth to reach the Top Blues Albums chart's number one position. \"A Christmas Celebration of Hope\" remained on the \"Billboard\" 200 and Top Holiday Albums charts for three weeks; the album remained on the", "id": "9337993" }, { "contents": "Chris August\n\n\nwas released as a single that year. The album peaked at No. 15 on the Christian Albums charts and No. 9 on the Heatseeker Albums. The single hit No. 1 on the Billboard Christian Songs chart and it reached No. 21 on Billboard's Heatseeker Songs. When the song topped the Christian AC Monitored chart, it was the first debut single to reach No. 1 in over three years. His second single was \"7x70\" which is a song about forgiveness following his parents' divorce when he was", "id": "14389352" }, { "contents": "Bachata Romántica: 1's\n\n\nrelease, the album peaked at number eighteen on \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart and number two on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart. It became the ninth best-selling Tropical Album of 2009. Several songs included on the album were released as singles from their respective parent albums including the opening \"Un Beso\" by Aventura and \"Dime\" by Ivy Queen. A second volume to the album was released in 2010 entitled \"Bachata Romántica 1's, Vol. 2\". \"Bachata Romántica: 1's\"", "id": "22058456" }, { "contents": "Gran Omar\n\n\n\"\"Omar Navarro\" redirects here. For the Panamanian football defender see Omar Navarro Rutinelly.\" Omar Jose Navarro, known artistically as Gran Omar, is a Puerto Rican rapper, singer-songwriter, and record producer. He has received production and writing on credits on various albums between 1996 and 2006 by Ivy Queen his former wife. These albums including \"En Mi Imperio\" (1996), \"The Original Rude Girl\" (1998), \"Diva\" (2003), \"Real\" (2004)", "id": "18697995" }, { "contents": "Dile (Don Omar song)\n\n\n\"Dile\" (English: \"\"Tell Him\"\") is the second single from Don Omar's debut album, \"The Last Don\" (2003). It was released airplay in May 2004, and released in iTunes on July 25, 2005 along with the track \"Intocable\". The recording received considerable airplay success. It was charted on all the Latin \"Billboard\" singles charts peaking at number 47 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs, peaking at number 8 on the Tropical Songs and number", "id": "6820765" }, { "contents": "Reboot (Wonder Girls album)\n\n\n\"Billboard\" US World Albums chart, becoming their best charting album on that chart. It also peaked at number twenty-five on US Heatseekers Albums. It was ranked at number eighteen on FuseTV's list The 20 Best Albums of 2015 and at number one on \"Billboard\"'s The 10 Best K-Pop Albums of 2015. The main single \"I Feel You\" charted at number one on eight major South Korean music streaming charts during the week of its release. It peaked on the third position of the", "id": "12226528" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\nMercenario, Monserrate, Mr. G, DJ Sonic and Sosa. Upon release, the album peaked at number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, number three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, and number two on the \"Billboard\" Reggae Albums chart. \"Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\" spawned one single, \"La Cazadora\" performed by Tito \"El Bambino\". It reached number thirty-eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart and number eight on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs", "id": "1607440" }, { "contents": "Page One (Steven Page album)\n\n\nthe Billboard Adult Alternative Songs chart. The music video debuted on October 9, 2010. The second single from the album was \"Over Joy\". No video was made for the song. \"Page One\" peaked at number 58 on the Canadian Albums Chart. It did not make the \"Billboard\" 200 chart in the United States; however, it did peak at number 6 on the Heatseekers Albums Chart. It also finished in third place on CBC Radio 2's \"Top Canadian Albums of 2010\", as", "id": "5400663" }, { "contents": "Kutless (album)\n\n\nKutless is the self-titled debut album of Christian rock group, Kutless, released in 2002. The songs \"Run\" and \"Your Touch\" both reached No. 1 song on ChristianRock.net, and \"Tonight\" was in the Top 5. The album reached The \"Billboard\" Top Heatseekers Albums chart peaking at No. 48. The album also reached the \"Billboard\" Christian Albums chart peaking at No. 27. It is the only Kutless album to feature bassist Nathan Stuart, who left the band shortly after", "id": "20001462" }, { "contents": "Play That Song (Tony Touch song)\n\n\n/Hip-Hop Songs reaching #22. It also managed to peak at #31 on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Songs chart, peaking at number seven and number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay and \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Airplay charts respectively. Following the commercial failure of Tony Touch's second studio album \"The Piece Maker 2\" (2004), which was a sequel to his critically acclaimed debut studio album, Touch decided to move away from his style of New York Hip Hop music,", "id": "13744931" }, { "contents": "List of number-one Billboard Top Latin Albums of 2006\n\n\nalbum debuted at number 24 in the \"Billboard\" 200 in the last week of 2005; it spent 13 weeks at the top of the chart, more than any other number-one albums in the chart. \"Now Latino\" also peaked at number one, spending seven non-consecutive weeks at this position; this compilation album includes music by Aventura, Don Omar, Juanes, La 5ª Estación, Kumbia Kings, Chayanne, Wisin & Yandel, Bebe, Ricardo Arjona, Luis Fonsi, Thalía, Alexis & Fido", "id": "18700318" }, { "contents": "Funky Divas\n\n\na weapon.\" He found that the album paved the way for other female bands such as TLC and Destiny's Child. In the United States, \"Funky Divas\" debuted at number eight on the \"Billboard\" 200 album chart and reached the top spot on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart with first week sales of 60,000 units. A major commercial success, it became one of the biggest-selling R&B albums of year, exceeding sales of more than 3.5 million copies domestically. It was eventually", "id": "16566891" }, { "contents": "Drama Queen (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\nweek. It debuted (and peaked) at number 163 on the US \"Billboard\" 200 chart, number three on Top Latin Albums and number 18 on Rap Albums. The album also debuted at number one on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart, leading the chart for ten consecutive weeks. \"Drama Queen\" received a Latin Grammy nomination for Best Urban Music Album at the 2011 Latin Grammy Awards (which was won by Calle 13 for \"Entren Los Que Quieran\"). It earned Queen two nominations at", "id": "13406451" }, { "contents": "Live in Hollywood (RBD album)\n\n\nsuccess. In Mexico, the release reached #14 on the Mexican Albums Chart. It was certified Gold by the Asociación Mexicana de Productores de Fonogramas y Videogramas (AMPROFON) for the sales of 50,000 copies in the country. In the United States, the album peaked at #120 on the \"Billboard\" 200, where it charted for five weeks. The album reached #4 and position #6 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums and \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums charts, respectively. With that, the", "id": "7405293" }, { "contents": "Los Cazadores: Primera Busqueda\n\n\n\" also managed to debut at number fourteen on the \"Billboard\" Compilation Albums chart for the week of March 12, 2005. The album’s lead single, \"La Cazadora\", was released to radio stations in February 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, it peaked at number 38 for the week of January 21, 2006. It peaked at number 16 on the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart, for the week of November 26, 2005. On the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart", "id": "1607447" }, { "contents": "Viva el Príncipe\n\n\n\"Billboard\" 200 and No. 2 on both the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums and \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums charts selling over 7,000 copies its first week. The album reached No. 1 on the Top Latin Albums and Latin Pop Albums charts in the week of 29 January 2011 succeeding Shakira's album \"Sale el Sol\" where it spent seven weeks on top of Latin Albums and ten weeks on top of Latin Pop Albums. It peaked at No. 49 on the \"Billboard\" 200 on the week", "id": "21065231" }, { "contents": "Femme Fatale (Miki Howard album)\n\n\nFemme Fatale is the fourth studio album by American R&B/jazz singer Miki Howard. Released in 1992 under Giant Records, the album peaked at No. 110 on \"Billboard\" 200 and No. 7 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B Albums chart. The first single from the album, \"Ain't Nobody Like You\", reached No. 1 on the R&B Singles chart, her second number one on the chart. The follow-up single, \"Release Me\", peaked at No. 43 on the", "id": "5142234" }, { "contents": "Contra la Corriente (Marc Anthony album)\n\n\n, and stayed at number-one for three consecutive weeks. The album debuted at number-one on the [[Tropical Albums]] chart and remained on top for ten non-consecutive weeks. \"Contra la Corriente\" was the first album Anthony to chart on the [[Billboard 200|\"Billboard\" 200]], peaking at number seventy-four. The album was the fourth best selling Latin album of 1998 and was the second best selling tropical album after \"[[Buena Vista Social Club (album)|Buena Vista Social", "id": "11150878" }, { "contents": "Barrio Fino\n\n\ndebuted at number one on the US Tropical Albums and at number 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200. The release of \"Gasolina\" as the album's lead single enhanced its chart performance and it topped the Top Latin Albums chart for a second week in 2005, remaining there for another 22 non-consecutive weeks, for a total of 24 weeks at number one. It also re-entered the \"Billboard\" 200 in the week ending on December 18, 2004, and peaked at number 26 on the April 16", "id": "1709085" }, { "contents": "Temptation (Brenda K. Starr album)\n\n\nTemptation is the seventh studio album by American singer Brenda K. Starr. It was released on March 26, 2002 on Sony Discos. The album featured four singles, \"Por Ese Hombre,\" the title track, \"Gato Bajo La Lluvia,\" and \"Rabia.\" The lead single peaked at number eleven on the \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart and number one on the \"Billboard\" Tropical/Salsa Airplay chart, leading the latter chart for eight consecutive weeks in 2002. The album reached the top thirty", "id": "8370139" }, { "contents": "Connie Smith\n\n\nweeks spent at number one on the \"Billboard\" country chart by a female artist. RCA Victor released Smith's self-titled debut album in March 1965 which also reached No. 1, spending seven weeks at the top of the \"Billboard\" Top Country Albums chart, and spending 30 weeks on the chart overall. In addition, the album also peaked at No. 105 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart around the same time. Dan Cooper of \"Allmusic\" called the production of the album to sound", "id": "4467985" }, { "contents": "Savage (Tank album)\n\n\nSavage is the eighth studio album by American recording artist Tank. It was released on September 29, 2017 by Atlantic Records and his synergetic label R&B Money. The album debuted and peaked at number 24 number US \"Billboard\" 200 and at number 17 on \"Billboard\"s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, becoming his lowest-charting album to the latter chart yet. The album's leading single \"When We\" became his first US \"Billboard\" Hot 100 entry as a solo artist in over a decade and peaked", "id": "436274" }, { "contents": "Cee Lo's Magic Moment\n\n\n\"generally favorable reviews\". In the United States, the album debuted at No. 67 on the \"Billboard\" 200 albums chart on its first week of release, selling around 6,000 copies. It peaked at No. 25 on the chart. It also peaked at No. 4 on \"Billboard\"'s Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums, and No. 6 on the Holiday Albums chart. It was ranked No. 153 on the 2013 Year End Billboard 200 chart. As of October 2015, the album", "id": "1419812" }, { "contents": "Flashback (Ivy Queen album)\n\n\n2012. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Tropical Airplay chart, the song reached #1 for the week of November 5, 2005 replacing \"Amor De Una Noche\" by N'Klabe. It moved 4-1 from the previous week and gave Queen her first #1 on the chart. Only to being succeeded by \"Amor De Una Noche\" a week later. On the \"Billboard\" Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart, the song peaked at #14 for the week ending December 31, 2005. Meaning, the song", "id": "8822609" }, { "contents": "The Trinity (album)\n\n\nChingy. It was featured on the Black Entertainment Television series \"Access Granted\" on 17 August 2005 and premiered online on 18 August 2005 at MTV.com. The single itself has peaked at number two on the UK Singles Chart. It also peaked at number five on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot 100 and seventeen on Billboard's R&B/Hip-hop charts. The album topped the Reggae charts on 27 September, selling over 120,000 in its first week, the highest ever reggae/ Dancehall debut and single week sales for a reggae", "id": "17542427" }, { "contents": "Casting Crowns (album)\n\n\nthe Christian Albums chart. The following week, the album reached the number 1 position on the Heatseekers Albums chart. \"Who Am I\", the album's 2nd single, was released on February 22, 2004 to Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational radio. The song topped the \"Radio & Records\" Christian AC, Christian CHR, and Soft AC/Inspirational charts as well as the \"Billboard\" Hot Christian Songs and Hot Christian AC charts. In May 2004 the album reached its peak", "id": "5563795" }, { "contents": "Bachata Number 1's, Vol. 3\n\n\nnumber six on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. \"El Culpable Soy Yo\" by Cristian Castro is from the album of the same name. It reached the top ten of both the \"Billboard\" Latin Songs and Tropical Songs chart. \"Dame Un Chance (Nena)\" is performed by urban bachata group Marcy Place from their debut album \"B From Marcy Place\" (2008). It peaked at number twenty-three on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Songs chart. Upon release, the album debuted at", "id": "88446" }, { "contents": "12 Discípulos\n\n\n. On the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, the album peaked at number five, on the \"Billboard\" Tropical Albums chart, it peaked at number one for three inconsecutive weeks. It also managed to reach number eighteen on the \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart. The album's commercial success promoted Machete Music to pick up the album for a special edition rerelease on December 13, 2005. Prior to releasing \"12 Discípulos\", Eddie Dee had previously released four studio albums, \"Eddie Dee and the Ghetto Crew", "id": "20730660" }, { "contents": "Hawthorne Heights discography\n\n\nand their album, \"If Only You Were Lonely\", both achieved Gold certification. Their second album additionally peaked at #1 on \"Billboard\" Independent Albums chart and #3 on the \"Billboard\" 200 charts. The two lead singles from their 2004 debut album, \"Ohio Is for Lovers\" and \"Niki FM\" both charted on \"Billboard\"'s Alternative Songs chart. They are also well known for their 2006 single \"Saying Sorry\", which reached Gold status and peaked at #7 on the", "id": "9621063" }, { "contents": "The Noise (band)\n\n\nviolent and explicit sexual lyrics,\" later releasing her debut studio album \"En Mi Imperio\" in 1996. In 1997, \"The Best Greatest Hits\" was released. It reached number eight on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart. It also peaked at number five on the \"Billboard\" Latin Pop Albums chart. Later that same year, \"The Noise, Vol. 8: The Real Noise\" was released. It reached number twelve and number six on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums and \"Billboard\"", "id": "17889923" }, { "contents": "Rebelde (album)\n\n\nSpanish) in the top ten of the Brazilian Albums Chart at the same time, with both albums reaching number one. In 2006, the original Spanish-language version of the album was also released in Spain. RBD eventually topped the Spain Albums Chart with their debut album for five consecutive weeks. The album also spent more than 50 weeks in the \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart in the United States, peaking at number two and spending over 2 months in the chart's top 5, selling over 400,000 copies in", "id": "1395324" }, { "contents": "J Balvin discography\n\n\nlater sent to Latin radio and received heavy rotation, becoming his first number one \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Songs chart and peaked at number three at \"Billboard\" Latin Songs chart, the song was certified Gold in Mexico and Spain. That October 2013, Balvin released his third studio album \"La Familia\" that peaked at number ten on the \"Billboard\" Latin Albums chart, topped the \"Billboard\" Latin Rhythm Albums chart and recently received seven Platinum and two Gold certifications. In 2014, he released the fifth single", "id": "10231535" }, { "contents": "Bobby Pulido\n\n\nU.S. \"Billboard\" Top Latin Albums chart, the title track was second single released and debuted at number 21 on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Hot Latin Tracks chart in the week of February 3, 1996, and Pulido became a popular Tejano recording artist. In April 1996, the album peaked at number nine on the Top Latin Albums chart and number three on the U.S. \"Billboard\" Regional Mexican Albums chart. John Lannert of \"Billboard\" magazine called Pulido's chart position \"impressive\" and called the singer a \"", "id": "7297067" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nNew Mexico State Treasurer in 2014. Wertheim is a graduate of Yale University, where the Yale Political Union elected him President and then Speaker. Representing the Yale Debate Association, he and partner Matt Wolf won the 1990 World Universities Debating Championship held at the Glasgow University Union in Scotland, becoming the first Americans to do so. In 1990, he and debate partner Austan Goolsbee placed second at the APDA National Debating Championship. At Yale, he was also a member of the secret society Skull and Bones. In his senior year", "id": "11791005" }, { "contents": "John Wertheim\n\n\nJohn V. Wertheim (born 12 February 1968) is an American lawyer and politician who served as Chairman of the Democratic Party of New Mexico from 2004 until 2007. During that time, he also served on the Executive Committee of the Democratic National Committee. In 1996, he was the Democratic nominee for the United States House of Representatives in New Mexico's 1st congressional district against the incumbent Representative Steve Schiff of the Republican Party (United States). The treasurer for his congressional campaign was Arvind A. Raichur. Wertheim is running for", "id": "11791004" }, { "contents": "Dahlia Lithwick\n\n\n1990. As a student at Yale, she debated on the American Parliamentary Debate Association circuit as a member of the Yale Debate Association. In 1990, she and her debate partner at the time, Austan Goolsbee, were runners up for the national Team of the Year. She went on to study law at Stanford University, where she received her J.D. degree in 1996. She then clerked for Judge Procter Hug on the United States Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit. She is Jewish and keeps a kosher home. She", "id": "3106561" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nAssociation. He and debate partner David Gray won the American Parliamentary Debate Association National Debate Team of the Year competition in 1991 defeating Ted Cruz who, once Goolsbee graduated, would go on to win in 1992 with partner David Panton. He and partner Dahlia Lithwick were runners up for the award in 1990. As a high school student, Goolsbee won the national championship in International Extemporaneous Speaking (IX) in 1987. Goolsbee has been a Research Fellow at the American Bar Foundation, Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research", "id": "10074539" }, { "contents": "Lowell Forensic Society\n\n\nat the National Catholic Forensic League Grand National Tournament in Albany, New York; and in 2010, Lowell sent its very first Parliamentary Debate team to the California State Championships. Lowell High School was the host campus for the 2012 California State Championships. At the 2016 California High School Speech Association State tournament senior Thomas White and junior Emily Hall took first place in Parliamentary Debate becoming state champions and making Lowell Forensics Society history. Lowell Forensic Society alumni include Yale University President Richard Levin, Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, California Governor Edmund", "id": "10185295" }, { "contents": "Horace Hahn\n\n\n. He then attended the University of California, Los Angeles, where he was the national forensic debate champion, graduating with an A.B. in Political Science. After graduating from Stanford Law School, he embarked on a national speaking tour with Helen Gahagan Douglas, the wife of actor Melvyn Douglas. Gahagan Douglas was elected to the United States House of Representatives from California's 14th congressional district as a liberal Democrat in 1944, and served three full terms. In 1950, Gahagan Douglas ran for the United States Senate against Republican U.S. Representative", "id": "7733101" }, { "contents": "John Kerry\n\n\nJohn Forbes Kerry (born December 11, 1943) is an American politician who served as the 68th United States Secretary of State from 2013 to 2017. A member of the Democratic Party, he previously served as a United States Senator from Massachusetts from 1985 until 2013. He was the Democratic nominee in the 2004 presidential election, losing to Republican incumbent George W. Bush. Kerry was born in Aurora, Colorado, and attended boarding school in Massachusetts and New Hampshire. He graduated from Yale University in 1966 with a major in political", "id": "22183276" }, { "contents": "Bob Shrum\n\n\ndebate championship, the National Debate Tournament). He later received a J.D. degree from Harvard Law School. Shrum began his political career as a speechwriter in 1970, first for Republican New York City Mayor John Lindsay, and then for United States Senators Edmund Muskie and Ted Kennedy. Shrum was also a speechwriter for 1972 Democratic Party presidential nominee George McGovern as well as for 1976 Democratic Party presidential nominee Jimmy Carter. Shrum worked for Governor Carter for a total of ten days, and quit the night Carter won the Pennsylvania Primary.", "id": "13144322" }, { "contents": "Edwin Meese\n\n\nteam to statewide championships. He was recognized as valedictorian, class of 1949. Two weeks prior to graduation, he was accepted to Yale University and granted a scholarship. Meese served as president of the Yale Political Union, chairman of the Conservative Party, and chairman of the Yale Debating Association. Meese made the dean's list, and graduated with a bachelor of arts of political science in 1953. Meese became a member of ROTC upon enrollment at Yale, and upon graduation he obtained a commission in the United States Army as", "id": "16323937" }, { "contents": "Austan Goolsbee\n\n\nraised primarily in Whittier, California. He graduated from Milton Academy and received both his B.A. \"summa cum laude\" and M.A. in economics from Yale University in 1991 and went on to receive his Ph.D. in economics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1995. He was an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow (2000–02) and Fulbright Scholar via the Fulbright Commission Belgium (2006–07). At Yale, Goolsbee was a member of the Yale Political Union, the improv comedy troupe Just Add Water, Skull and Bones, and the Yale Debate", "id": "10074538" }, { "contents": "Harold H. Healy Jr.\n\n\nHarold Harris Healy Jr. (27 August 1921 – 4 March 2007) was an American lawyer who had a distinguished career in international law. A graduate of Yale University (1943), where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and Yale Law School (1949), he worked for the United States Department of Justice and was a longtime partner of the firm of Debevoise & Plimpton. He was notably the first American President of the Union Internationale des Avocats, was Chairman and Treasurer of the Legal Aid Society, and", "id": "17745632" }, { "contents": "Neal Katyal\n\n\n. He graduated in 1991 from Dartmouth College, where he was a member of Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Nu fraternity and the Dartmouth Forensic Union. In 1990 and 1991, while a member of the Dartmouth Forensic Union, he reached the semi-final round of the National Debate Tournament, college's national championship tournament. Katyal then attended Yale Law School. In law school, Katyal was an editor of the Yale Law Journal, and studied under Akhil Amar and Bruce Ackerman, with whom he published articles in law review and", "id": "22207099" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetes in the American Parliamentary style of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, which is an intercollegiate debate association with dozens of member universities across the United States. The YDA competes weekly at tournaments throughout the country. Members of the team have also been active in the governance of the league, including election to the executive board of APDA. YDA members who have served as President of APDA include Andrew Rohrbach (2008–2009), Andrew Korn (2004–2005), and Scott Luftglass (2000–2001). In addition to", "id": "19124495" }, { "contents": "William F. Buckley Jr.\n\n\nguard upon the President's death. He served stateside throughout the war at Fort Benning, Georgia; Fort Gordon, Georgia; and Fort Sam Houston, Texas. At the end of World War II in 1945, Buckley enrolled in Yale University, where he became a member of the secret Skull and Bones society and was a masterful debater. He was an active member of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and also served as Chairman of the \"Yale Daily News\" and as an informer for the FBI.", "id": "7371078" }, { "contents": "Jacob Augustus Geissenhainer\n\n\nJacob Augustus Geissenhainer, (August 28, 1839 – July 20, 1917) was an American lawyer and Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 3rd congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1889 to 1895. Geissenhainer was born in New York City and attended private schools. He graduated from Columbia College in New York City (master of arts, 1858), and went on to study law at Yale Law School, and New York University (bachelor of arts, 1860). He also attended the University", "id": "12807598" }, { "contents": "Brown Debating Union\n\n\nas a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with over fifty member universities across the United States. The BDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. It also hosts its own parliamentary debate tournament twice a year, and has been involved in APDA governance, with BDU members serving on APDA's executive board. The Brown Debating Union also competes internationally, notably at the North American Debating Championship, the World Universities Debating Championship, as well as Inter-Varsity", "id": "3349821" }, { "contents": "John Nicolson\n\n\nUnited States, and was Harkness Fellow in American Government at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard. He was a member of Adams House at Harvard. As a student he was the Scottish, British Isles Observer Mace (now the John Smith Memorial Mace), and World Universities Debating Championship in the same year, winning the World Championship with his debate partner Frank McKirgan at Princeton University, New Jersey. He returned to the Glasgow University Union in 2012 to debate against other former World Universities' Championship winners on a motion welcoming", "id": "9539553" }, { "contents": "Gary Locke\n\n\nand scholarships, Locke attended Yale University, graduating with a Bachelor of Arts in political science in 1972. He later received his juris doctor from Boston University School of Law in 1975. In 1982, Locke was elected to Washington state's South Seattle district in the Washington House of Representatives, where he served as the chair of the Appropriations Committee. Eleven years later, in 1993, Locke was elected as King County's executive, defeating incumbent Tim Hill. In 1996, Locke won the Democratic primary and general election for governor", "id": "16910485" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nat WUDC and has had more top speakers at WUDC than any other American university, and was the first team from the United States to reach the WUDC final round. Teams from across the United States and Canada attend the annual North American Championships. The style of debate is similar to American parliamentary, however speeches are shortened. The YDA has won the tournament three times, more than any other American team. In addition to these tournaments, the YDA competes at the Oxford and Cambridge Inter-varsity tournaments. Yale debaters won", "id": "19124497" }, { "contents": "American Parliamentary Debate Association\n\n\nThe American Parliamentary Debate Association (APDA) is the oldest intercollegiate parliamentary debating association in the United States, and one of two in the nation overall. The other is the National Parliamentary Debate Association (NPDA). APDA sponsors over 50 tournaments a year, all in a parliamentary format, as well as a national championship in late April. It also administers the North American Debating Championship with the Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate (CUSID) every year in January. Although it is mainly funded by its member universities, APDA", "id": "8847626" }, { "contents": "J. Harvie Wilkinson III\n\n\nthen Yale University, where he was a member of St. Anthony Hall, chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, and later the Political Union's president. He graduated with honors from Yale with a Bachelor of Arts degree in 1967, then published his first book, \"Harry Byrd and The Changing Face of Virginia Politics, 1945–1966\" (1968) Wilkinson enlisted in the United States Army in 1968 and served until 1969. Upon leaving the army, Wilkinson began law school at the University of Virginia School of", "id": "7313608" }, { "contents": "Philip Ruppe\n\n\nand graduated from high school in 1944. He attended the V-12 Navy College Training Program at Central Michigan University and University of Michigan, 1944–1946 and graduated from Yale University in 1948. He served in United States Navy during the Korean War as a lieutenant. He then served as director of Houghton National Bank, Commercial National Bank of L’Anse and R.L. Polk and Co. In 1966, Ruppe was the Republican candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives from Michigan's 11th congressional district. He defeated incumbent Democrat Raymond F. Clevenger, one of the", "id": "17719684" }, { "contents": "John Miller (Washington politician)\n\n\nJohn Ripin Miller (May 23, 1938 – October 4, 2017) was an American politician, who served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1985 to 1993. He represented the of Washington as a Republican. While in Congress he championed human rights in the Soviet Union, China, and South Africa. Miller received his LL.B. from Yale Law School and an MA in Economics from Yale Graduate School in 1964. He graduated with a BA from Bucknell University in 1959 and served as an Army Infantry officer", "id": "8729930" }, { "contents": "Peter Hoagland\n\n\nPeter Jackson Hoagland (November 17, 1941 – October 30, 2007) was a politician from the U.S. state of Nebraska. A member of the Democratic Party, Hoagland represented Nebraska's 2nd congressional district in the U.S. House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. Hoagland was born in Omaha, Nebraska, and graduated from Omaha Central High School and then Stanford University in 1963. He was a first lieutenant in the United States Army from 1963 to 1965 during the Vietnam War. He graduated from Yale Law School in 1968 and was", "id": "11834444" }, { "contents": "Ken Harbaugh\n\n\nKen Harbaugh (born December 15, 1973) is a former United States Navy pilot and nonprofit executive. Harbaugh was the Democratic Party nominee for the U.S. House of Representatives representing Ohio's 7th congressional district in the 2018 election. Harbaugh, who grew up in a military family, earned a Bachelor of Science degree from Duke University in 1996 and a Juris Doctor degree from Yale Law School in 2008, and studied at Oxford University while an undergraduate at Duke. He served as an Electronic Warfare Aircraft Commander in the U.S. Navy.", "id": "10648803" }, { "contents": "Stephanos Bibas\n\n\ngraduated from Columbia when he was 19 with a Bachelor of Arts (1989) in political theory, \"summa cum laude\". He then went on to attend Oxford University, graduating two years later with a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts (1991) in jurisprudence. While at Oxford, Bibas won the 1st place speaker award in the World Debate Championships. Bibas then attended Yale Law School, where he obtained his Juris Doctor (1994) and was a member of the \"Yale Law Journal.\" At Yale", "id": "2954517" }, { "contents": "Thomas F. Bayard Jr.\n\n\ngraduated from Yale University in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, attended Yale Law School and was admitted to the Delaware Bar in 1893. After living in New York City for four years and working as assistant corporation counsel, he returned to his Delaware law practice in 1901. He married Elizabeth Bradford du Pont on October 4, 1908. He served as a chairman of the Delaware Democratic Party's state committee from 1906 to 1916, and as solicitor for the city of Wilmington from 1917 until 1919.", "id": "17730897" }, { "contents": "Rogers Morton\n\n\na career in politics, serving as chairman of the Republican National Committee and representing Kentucky in both the United States House of Representatives and then the United States Senate. Morton received his early education from the Woodberry Forest School near Orange, Virginia, and in 1937 graduated from Yale University, where he was a brother of the Delta Kappa Epsilon fraternity (Phi chapter). Like his father, Morton worked to become a physician and entered the Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons. However, he dropped out after only one year", "id": "10713272" }, { "contents": "John L. Ducker\n\n\nJohn Lackner Ducker (September 3, 1922 – April 15, 2014) was an American politician in the state of Florida. He was an attorney by profession. Ducker was born in Fort Thomas, Kentucky. He attended Yale University and Yale Law School, attaining his law degree in 1950. He served in the Florida House of Representatives from 1960 to 1968. He was elected to the State Senate in 1968, serving until 1971. Ducker was a member of Phi Beta Kappa. He was also active in the Young Republicans", "id": "19854023" }, { "contents": "John O'Leary (ambassador)\n\n\nJohn O'Leary (January 16, 1947 – April 2, 2005) served as mayor of Portland, Maine, and as United States ambassador to Chile under President Bill Clinton. O'Leary was born in Portland and graduated from Yale University in 1969. He later attended Clare College, Cambridge University, on a Mellon fellowship and received a master's degree in 1971. He received a degree from Yale Law School in 1974. While studying at Yale Law, O'Leary acted as a coach for the Yale debate team. He then went on", "id": "20618219" }, { "contents": "Peter Keisler\n\n\nthe Acting Attorney General of the United States. A 1977 graduate from George W. Hewlett High School in Long Island, New York, Keisler went to Yale University both for undergraduate and law school. As an undergraduate, Keisler was the Chairman of the Party of the Right (Yale) and the Speaker of the Yale Political Union. He graduated magna cum laude from Yale College in 1981 and then entered Yale Law School. In 1982, he helped to co-found the Federalist Society, a conservative thinktank. He received his", "id": "14654086" }, { "contents": "Alan Simpson (American politician)\n\n\nAlan Kooi Simpson (born September 2, 1931) is an American politician and member of the Republican Party, who represented Wyoming in the United States Senate (1979–97). He also served as co-chair of the National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Reform with Democratic Party co-chair Erskine Bowles of North Carolina. Born in Denver, Colorado, Simpson graduated from the University of Wyoming's law school (1958). Simpson served in the Wyoming House of Representatives (1965–77) and won election to the United States Senate", "id": "10573912" }, { "contents": "Nik Nanos\n\n\nattended Queen’s University in Kingston Ontario. He founded SES Canada Research Inc., the precursor of Nanos Research as an undergraduate student at Queen’s University. While at Queen’s he was President of the Queen’s Debating Union and represented Queen’s in Canada, the United States, and at the National and World Debating Championships for extemporaneous parliamentary debating. Nik Nanos has undergraduate degrees in history and political studies and a Master of Business Administration from Queen’s University in Canada. His training includes PhD level studies at the University of Nottingham", "id": "20610300" }, { "contents": "Amy Klobuchar\n\n\nAmy Jean Klobuchar (; born May 25, 1960) is an American lawyer and politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Minnesota. A member of the Minnesota Democratic-Farmer-Labor Party, Minnesota's affiliate of the Democratic Party, she previously served as the Hennepin County Attorney. Born in Plymouth, Minnesota, Klobuchar is a graduate of Yale University and the University of Chicago Law School. She was a partner at two Minneapolis law firms before being elected county attorney for Hennepin County in 1998, making her responsible for", "id": "20626348" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\ncompetition within APDA, the YDA competes internationally. The YDA competes at the North American Debating Championships, at the World Universities Debating Championships, and at other Inter-Varsity debate tournaments. Currently, the YDA is ranked as the best collegiate debate organization in the world, ahead of the University of Sydney Union and the Oxford Union, according to the ranking methodology developed by iDebate, a major debating news website. The World Universities Debating Championships (WUDC) is conducted in the British Parliamentary style of debate. The YDA competes annually", "id": "19124496" }, { "contents": "George Pataki\n\n\nHigh School, Pataki entered Yale University with George W. Bush in 1964 on an academic scholarship, and graduated in three years, in 1967. While there Pataki served as Chairman of the Conservative Party of the Yale Political Union, where he participated in debates. He received his J.D. from Columbia Law School in 1970. While practicing law at Plunkett and Jaffe, P.C. in Peekskill, Pataki became friends with Michael C. Finnegan, who would go on to be the architect of Pataki's ascendancy to power. Finnegan would go on to", "id": "21753428" }, { "contents": "Frank Fahrenkopf\n\n\n. In 1986 he co-founded the Commission on Presidential Debates with Democratic National Committee chairman Paul G. Kirk. Fahrenkopf served for many years as chairman of the Pacific Democrat Union and vice chairman of the International Democrat Union, a worldwide association of conservative political parties from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany, Canada, Japan, Australia and twenty other nations. In 1985, Fahrenkopf was again hired by the firm Hogan & Hartson, as a \"special partner\", where he was paid at least $100,000", "id": "18551910" }, { "contents": "John C. Goodman\n\n\nhigh school, he excelled in debate - winning several statewide tournaments. This experience served him later in life when he became a TV debating partner of conservative polemicist William F. Buckley. He attended college at the University of Texas in Austin, where he became involved in campus politics and was elected vice president of the student body. The following year he lost the race for president to Lloyd Doggett, who today serves as a senior Democratic member of the House of Representatives. University of Texas student politics was a training ground for such", "id": "10972573" }, { "contents": "Peter G. Kelly\n\n\nPeter G. Kelly (born 1938) is an American lobbyist and political consultant. He received the 2015 Luminary Award in The World Affairs Council of CT. After education at Georgetown University and Yale Law School. Kelly founded his own law firm, Updike, Kelly and Spellacy. He served as Democratic National Committee finance chair, 1981-1985. He served as senior political advisor to Al Gore in 1988 and 2000, Bill Clinton in 1992 and 1996, and John Kerry in 2004. Kelly was a founding partner Black, Manafort", "id": "5950425" }, { "contents": "Foster Furcolo\n\n\nJohn Foster Furcolo (July 29, 1911 – July 5, 1995) was an American lawyer, writer, and Democratic Party politician from Massachusetts. He was the state's 60th governor, and also represented the state as a member of the United States House of Representatives. He was the first Italian-American governor of the state, and an active promoter of community colleges. Born in New Haven, Connecticut and educated at Yale, Furcolo practiced law before serving in the United States Navy during World War II. He first", "id": "18624333" }, { "contents": "John Sparkman\n\n\nJohn Jackson Sparkman (December 20, 1899 – November 16, 1985) was an American jurist and politician from the state of Alabama. A Southern Democrat, Sparkman served in the United States House of Representatives and the United States Senate from 1937 until 1979. He was also the Democratic Party's nominee for Vice President in the 1952 presidential election. Born in Morgan County, Alabama, Sparkman established a legal practice in Huntsville, Alabama after graduating from the University of Alabama School of Law. He won election to the House in", "id": "10908163" }, { "contents": "Herbert Tenzer\n\n\nHerbert Tenzer (November 1, 1905 – March 24, 1993) was an American Democratic Party politician, who served two terms in the United States House of Representatives from 1965 to 1968. Tenzer was also a lawyer and a philanthropist. Tenzer was born in New York City and attended the city's attended public schools. He graduated from Stuyvesant High School in 1923 and the New York University School of Law in 1927. He was admitted to the bar in 1929 and commenced the practice of law. Tenzer was a senior partner", "id": "12531668" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nthe Oxford Invitational most recently in 2009, as well as in 2006 (Yale also won the Cambridge Invitational in 2006) The Yale Invitational is a nationwide National Forensic League (NFL) tournament for high school students. Students come from across the country to compete in twelve events. Traditionally, quarter-finalists in Varsity Lincoln-Douglas, octo-finalists in Public Forum Debate, and Congressional Debate Super Session participants earn a bid to the Tournament of Champions. The Yale Invitational has been hosted on Yale University's campus every fall", "id": "19124498" }, { "contents": "John Martin Vorys\n\n\nJohn Martin Vorys (June 16, 1896 – August 25, 1968) was a U.S. Representative from Ohio. Born in Lancaster, Ohio, Vorys attended the public schools in Lancaster and Columbus, Ohio. During the First World War served overseas as a pilot in the famous \"Yale Unit\" of the United States Naval Air Service, retiring to inactive service in 1919 with rank of lieutenant. He graduated from Yale University in 1918, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Ohio State University Law School", "id": "4802717" }, { "contents": "Ryan Knowles\n\n\nInterprod Performance Studies Institute in Boston, Massachusetts; a summer intensive program for gifted young performers. This line of work was inspired by Knowles' success as a high school and collegiate speech and debate competitor, during which time he won numerous State and National Championships, as well as becoming the first American in history to win a World Championship at the 2000 World Universities Debate Association Championship Tournament at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. Clifford Johnson III wrote in \"Backstage\" on March 22, 2010, \"[The Producers]", "id": "16426817" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nVice President of Finance (1995–1996, 2004–2005, and 2011–2013), Member-at-Large (1996–1997, 2008–2009, and 2011–2012, 2014-2015), and Trustee (2008–2009 and 2009–2010). Though the primary purpose of HCDU is to compete within APDA, the team competes internationally as well. HSPDS has competed at the North American Debating Championships, the World Universities Debating Championships, and several Inter-Varsity tournaments at Oxford, Cambridge, and Yale. In addition to reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating", "id": "12278810" }, { "contents": "North American Debating Championship\n\n\nOttawa in 1997–1998 and 1999–2000, Rory Gillis of Yale University in two consecutive years from 2004 to 2006, and Kate Falkenstien of Yale in two consecutive years from 2010 to 2012. Every year from 1992 to 2001, and biannually from 2003 to 2007, individual public speaking was also an event at the championship. It was run as a parallel tournament, with a grand public speaking final before the final round of debate. After 2007, it was discontinued as APDA had shortened debating tournaments and discontinued public speaking as a regular event", "id": "10608545" }, { "contents": "Evanston Township High School\n\n\nhalf decade. The Debate team earned its first National Speech and Debate Association (formerly the National Forensic League) National Championship in 2012 in Congressional Debate. In 2015, the team captured two more national titles when it won the NCFL Grand National Tournament in Lincoln-Douglas debate and the NSDA National Championship in Extemporaneous Debate. In 2014, ETHS was named a National Debate School of Excellence by the NSDA, indicating that Evanston had placed among the top twenty schools at the NSDA National Championship Tournament. The team sponsors an annual debate", "id": "8817007" }, { "contents": "Percy Hamilton Stewart\n\n\nPercy Hamilton Stewart (January 10, 1867, Newark, New Jersey – June 30, 1951, Plainfield, New Jersey) was a Democratic Party politician who represented New Jersey's 5th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives from 1931 to 1933. Stewart was born in Newark, New Jersey on January 10, 1867, where he attended the public schools. He graduated from Yale College in 1890, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, and from Columbia Law School in 1893. He was admitted to", "id": "564200" }, { "contents": "Bancroft Literary Association and Carrollton-Wight Literary Society\n\n\nteams to the National Forensic League National Tournament. The team of Dikshant Malla and Sophie Bauerschmidt Sweeney won the 2013 National Association of Urban Debate Leagues policy debate national championship, which was held at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C. In 2013, Baltimore City College also earned the second of two consecutive Baltimore Urban Debate League championships. Mock trial was not a traditional part of the literary societies, but has been incorporated into the modern speech and debate program. Teams from City College have represented Baltimore City in the Maryland State Championships twice since", "id": "18990457" }, { "contents": "Drew Hansen\n\n\nDrew Hansen is an American politician of the Democratic Party and author. He is a member of the Washington House of Representatives, representing the 23rd district. Hansen is a Harvard graduate and Rhodes Scholar. He studied theology at Oxford University and earned his J.D. at Yale Law School. He is the author of \"The Dream: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Speech that Inspired a Nation\". Hansen has led Washington state's expansion of computer science education. He sponsored legislation (HB 1472) to encourage students to", "id": "11880603" }, { "contents": "Daniel P. Davison\n\n\nStates Secretary of War, before becoming president of the American Museum of Natural History. He attended the Groton School, which had been founded in 1884 by his grandfather, Endicott Peabody. Davison enlisted during World War II in the United States Army Air Forces where he was a pilot of a Boeing B-17 Flying Fortress. He earned his undergraduate degree in 1949 from Yale University in 1949, where he was a member of the Yale Political Union and the Skull and Bones society. He earned his legal degree from Harvard Law School in", "id": "15280418" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nstyle of debate as a member of the American Parliamentary Debate Association, an intercollegiate debate association with roughly fifty member universities across the United States. HCDU competes at tournaments across the country that take place on Fridays and Saturdays each week. The team is also active in the political structure of the league. The HCDU has been represented in all positions on the executive board of APDA: as President (1990–1991, 2012-2014, 2017-2018), Vice President of Operations (1997–1998, 2010–2011 and 2016-17),", "id": "12278809" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nChampionship twice of the last three years, Harvard won the Yale IV in 2007 and 2016 and two Harvard teams reached the final round in 2010. A Harvard team also reached the final round at the 2008 and 2016 North American Debating Championship. For the first time, Harvard won the North American Debating Championship in 2013 and in 2014 followed by winning the World Universities Debating Championship. The inaugural Harvard Debating Championships were held on October 23–24, 1981. The tournament has been held annually each year since then and has not only remained", "id": "12278811" }, { "contents": "Harvard Speech and Parliamentary Debate Society\n\n\nthe 2009 and 2011 United States Universities Debating Championship (a British Parliamentary style tournament, top speaker at the 2009 North American Debating Championships, the 2012 and 2010 1st Teams of the Year in the American Parliamentary Debate Association, two-time finalists at the 2009 and 2010 World Universities Debating Championship, and winners of the 2014 World Universities Debating Championship. The Harvard College Debating Union is run by a board of students who are elected by the team each winter and additional members appointed by that board. The board is responsible for all", "id": "12278807" }, { "contents": "Rick Levin\n\n\nRichard Charles Levin (born April 7, 1947) is an economist and academic administrator. From 1993 to 2013, he was the 22nd President of Yale University. From March 2014 to June 2017, he was Chief Executive Officer of Coursera. Born in San Francisco, California, to Jewish-American parents, Levin graduated from Lowell High School in San Francisco in 1964. At Lowell, he was a member of the Lowell Forensic Society and debated in high school debate tournaments regionally. He graduated from Stanford University in 1968 with", "id": "8970731" }, { "contents": "Lawrence Lessig\n\n\nas president with his proposed reforms as his legislative priorities. He ended his campaign in November 2015, citing rule changes from the Democratic Party that precluded him from appearing in the televised debates. Lessig earned a B.A. degree in economics and a B.S. degree in management (Wharton School) from the University of Pennsylvania, an M.A. degree in philosophy from the University of Cambridge (Trinity) in England, and a J.D. degree from Yale Law School in 1989. After graduating from law school, he clerked for a year for Judge Richard", "id": "9716646" }, { "contents": "Fred Wertheimer\n\n\n. In 1996, Wertheimer was a Fellow at the Shorenstein Center on the Press, Politics and Public Policy at Harvard University, and in 1997 he was the J. Skelly Wright Fellow and Visiting Lecturer at Yale Law School. He also has been a political analyst and consultant for CBS News, ABC News and ABC's \"Nightline\". Wertheimer is currently the President and CEO of Democracy 21, a nonpartisan nonprofit organization, which he founded in 1997. He was named as one of the 90 greatest Washington lawyers of the last", "id": "1447008" }, { "contents": "L. W. Housel\n\n\nand working on farms and in lumber camps, he was admitted to Yale University. While at Yale, he worked his way through college as a newspaper reporter for the New Haven Journal-Courier. After receiving his undergraduate degree from Yale in 1897, he then attended Yale Law School, receiving his law degree in 1900. In November of the same year in which Housel graduated from law school, he was elected as a Democrat to the Connecticut House of Representatives, where he represented a district in New Haven. He was", "id": "2923698" }, { "contents": "Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate\n\n\npresident of CUSID is the head of the organization and leads an elected executive team of six national and regional officers. He or she also represents CUSID and Canadian debating interests inside and outside of Canada, and is the Canadian representative on the World Universities Debating Council. He or she is elected annually by the member institutions at the National Championships. There have been five CUSID Presidents who won the National Championships during their term as President: Jason Brent (1992), Gerald Butts (1993), Robert Silver (2000),", "id": "9546061" }, { "contents": "Philip Long (swimmer)\n\n\nPhilip Edward Long (born December 6, 1948) is an American former competition swimmer. Long represented the United States at the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico City. He competed in the final of the men's 200-meter breaststroke, and finished in seventh place with a time of 2:33.6. Long attended Yale University, and swam for coach Phil Moriarty's Yale Bulldogs swimming and diving team in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) competition from 1968 to 1970. He won the NCAA national championship in the 200-yard breaststroke in 1968. He", "id": "2058143" }, { "contents": "Robert P. Watson\n\n\nUniversity in Boca Raton, Florida as the Director of American Studies and is also Professor of American Studies. He was instrumental in bringing the Third Presidential Debate of 2012 to Lynn University. A member of the Democratic Party, Watson formed an exploratory committee in May 2005 to consider running for the United States House of Representatives in Florida's 22nd District, which pitted him against Republican incumbent Rep. Clay Shaw. Watson later withdrew from the race. Shaw was defeated by the eventual Democratic candidate, Ron Klein. Politically, Watson has long", "id": "17942228" }, { "contents": "Jamie Pedersen\n\n\nJamie Pedersen (born September 9, 1968) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Washington who has served as a member of the Washington State Legislature since January 2007. He currently represents the 43rd District in the Washington State Senate. Pedersen grew up in Puyallup, Washington and attended Puyallup High School. He graduated summa cum laude in American Studies from Yale and received his law degree from Yale Law School. Pedersen was an active member of the Yale Russian Chorus while an undergraduate and law student, and remains active", "id": "21127288" }, { "contents": "Sherman Minton\n\n\ncontinued to improve his oratory skills and continued debating at Yale; he won the Wayland Club prize for extemporaneous public speaking, and helped organize the university's legal aid society. He earned a post-graduate master's degree from Yale Law School in 1916. In May 1916, Minton returned to New Albany, where he opened a law practice and renewed his relationship with Gurtz. He took several cases and gained experience working pro bono to assist the local county prosecutor. He joined the Chautauqua lecture circuit, and traveled to several", "id": "16234592" }, { "contents": "Brian Kennedy (Iowa politician)\n\n\nBrian Kennedy (born 1964) is an American lawyer and former state Republican Party chairman of Iowa. He served as a member of the Republican National Committee, co-chairman of the Republican National Convention Platform Committee and past Executive Director of the Republican Governors Association in Washington, D.C. Kennedy graduated from Iowa State University and Drake University Law School. In 2003, he founded Campaign of One, which sponsored hundreds of Internet-based campaign projects on behalf of Republican candidates from the White House to the courthouse. In 2006, Kennedy", "id": "8355671" }, { "contents": "Plano Senior High School\n\n\nPlano Senior Speech Team received School of Excellence awards in both the Speech and Debate categories, one of only three schools that year to do so. The team also won the 2005 national title at the Princeton University tournament. At the 2007 National Speech Tournament, Plano students won the sixth place Sweepstakes Trophy. In 2006 and 2009, the school finished 2nd in the annual National Public Policy Forum (NPPF) debate tournament held in New York City and hosted by the Bickel & Brewer law firm and New York University. In 2011", "id": "6761908" }, { "contents": "Charles S. Haight Jr.\n\n\nCharles Sherman Haight Jr. (born September 23, 1930) is an American lawyer and a Senior United States District Judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, who has sat by designation in the District of Connecticut since he took senior status. Born in New York City, New York, Haight graduated from Yale University in 1952, where he was a member of Skull and Bones, with a Bachelor of Arts degree and entered Yale Law School the following year, graduating in 1955 with a Bachelor", "id": "19028274" }, { "contents": "James Colgate Cleveland\n\n\nJames Colgate Cleveland (June 13, 1920 – December 3, 1995) was an American politician in the U.S. state of New Hampshire. He served as a Republican member of the United States House of Representatives from 1963 to 1981. Cleveland was born in Montclair, Essex County, New Jersey. He attended Deerfield Academy in Deerfield, Massachusetts before graduating from Colgate University in Hamilton, New York in 1942. He then attended Yale Law School as a graduate student. His time at Yale was interrupted when he enlisted in the Army", "id": "19453496" }, { "contents": "Robert Lipshutz\n\n\nHe earned his undergraduate degree from the University of Georgia, where he was captain of the debate team, member of the Phi Kappa Literary Society, and was awarded a law degree from the University of Georgia School of Law in 1943. He served in the United States Army during World War II and worked as a lawyer in Atlanta after completing his military service, opening a law office in 1947. Lipshutz first met Carter in 1966 when Carter was running an ultimately unsuccessful bid in the Democratic Party primary against Lester Maddox. When", "id": "6122221" }, { "contents": "Rich Sattgast\n\n\nRichard L. Sattgast is an American Republican politician who serves as the state auditor of South Dakota. He formerly served as state treasurer. Sattgast was born in Spearfish, South Dakota, graduating from Spearfish High School. He received a bachelor's degree from Black Hills State University and a master's degree from New Mexico Highlands University. Sattgast also served in the United States Army and in the South Dakota National Guard. Sattgast was elected state auditor in 2002, defeating Democrat Dick Butler with 52% of the vote. He was reelected", "id": "11428709" }, { "contents": "Mike Lawlor\n\n\nfor the State's Attorney Office in New Haven, where he served until his election to the Connecticut House of Representatives in 1986. He is currently a Professor of Criminal Justice at the University of New Haven's Henry C. Lee College of Criminal Justice and Forensic Sciences, and is also a Visiting Lecturer in Law at the Yale Law School. Lawlor was co-chairman of the General Assembly's Judiciary Committee from 1995 to 2011. Prior to that, he was co-chairman of the Labor and Public Employees Committee where he", "id": "1771156" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nand John Kerry were the best speakers he'd ever worked with,\" Yale graduate Harvey Bundy told The New York Times in 2004. Among those who acted as assistant coaches under Osterweis was John O'Leary, then a student at the law school and later the United States Ambassador to Chile. As noted below, the team now hosts a tournament for local Connecticut schools in memory of Rollin Osterweis. The Yale Debate Association is run by a board of students who are elected by the team as a whole each year. This board", "id": "19124493" }, { "contents": "Adam Spencer\n\n\nto a maths major. He graduated from the University of Sydney with a Bachelor of Science with first class honours in pure mathematics in 1991. While at university, he was one of the world's top-ranked debaters, reaching the final round of the World Universities Debating Championship three times (1990, 1992, 1996) and winning \"World's Best Individual Speaker\" (1996). He also won the Australasian debating championship twice (1988, 1990). He was also President of the University of Sydney Union.", "id": "242200" }, { "contents": "Rufus King International School – High School Campus\n\n\nand speech teams. The school participates in the national districts of the National Forensics League and National Catholic Forensics League, regional Wisconsin Forensic Coaches Association and Wisconsin Debate Coaches Association, as well as the citywide Milwaukee Debate League. Nearly every year, King debaters qualify for both NFL and NCFL national tournaments, while placing high at state, regional, and local tournaments. Students from the school have won two NFL national championships in Student Congress (as well as the Presiding Officer Award), the NFL national championship in Policy Debate,", "id": "8263174" }, { "contents": "Phil Talmadge\n\n\nPhil Talmadge (born c. 1952) is an American politician, attorney, and jurist, who is currently a partner at the Seattle, Washington law firm Talmadge/Fitzpatrick. Talmadge graduated from Yale University and received a J.D. from the University of Washington. From 1979 to 1995 he represented West Seattle in the Washington State Senate, earning a reputation as a liberal reformer. After leaving the legislature, Talmadge served a single six-year term on the Supreme Court of Washington. In 2004 he was a candidate for the Democratic party", "id": "4182938" }, { "contents": "Tom Foley\n\n\nThomas Stephen Foley (March 6, 1929 – October 18, 2013) was an American lawyer and politician who served as the 49th Speaker of the United States House of Representatives from 1989 to 1995. A member of the Democratic Party, Foley represented Washington's fifth district for thirty years He was the first Speaker of the House since 1862 to be defeated in a re-election campaign. Born in Spokane, Washington, Foley attended Gonzaga University and pursued a legal career after graduating from the University of Washington School of Law in", "id": "20778563" }, { "contents": "Yale Debate Association\n\n\nThe Yale Debate Association (YDA) is Yale University's only competitive intercollegiate debate team. Founded in 1908, it is the most prolific winner of the American Parliamentary Debate Association's Club of the Year award. The YDA was also the first American team to win and have the top speaker at the modern World Championships. Currently, the YDA is the fourth-ranked collegiate debate society in the world, and the highest in North America. Founded in 1908, the Yale Debate Association initially hosted debates with Harvard and Princeton three", "id": "19124489" }, { "contents": "Westfield High School (Virginia)\n\n\nWestfield debate and forensics teams have received numerous awards and distinctions. The debate team has been ranked in the top five teams since 2004, and Forensics placed fourth overall in the 2004 VHSL state tournament. The Forensics team also won second place in the Foreign Extemporaneous Speaking individual event at the 2007 state tournament. In 2007, Westfield and its business partner Northrop Grumman teamed with NASA to participate in the school's first FIRST Robotics Competition at Virginia Commonwealth University for a regional event. In an effort to show religious diversity, Westfield opened", "id": "8616775" }, { "contents": "Steven Schiff\n\n\nSteven Harvey Schiff (March 18, 1947 – March 25, 1998) was an American politician. He served as a member of the United States House of Representatives, representing the first district of New Mexico from 1989 until his death in 1998. Schiff was a Republican. Schiff was born in Chicago, Illinois. He received a B.A. at the University of Illinois and a Juris Doctor from the University of New Mexico School of Law. Schiff joined the New Mexico Air National Guard in 1969, and he was a reservist until", "id": "16407421" }, { "contents": "Matthew Mendelsohn\n\n\nin Political Science from the Université de Montréal. While attending university, Mendelsohn was president of the McGill University Debating Union and Canadian University Society for Intercollegiate Debate, and won the award for Top Speaker at the 1987 Canadian National Debating Championship. After completing his Ph.D. in 1993, Mendelsohn spent a year at the University of British Columbia as a SSHRC post-doctoral fellow, before taking up a position as an assistant professor of political science at Queen's University. From 1996 to 1998, he served as a senior advisor in Canada", "id": "10608669" }, { "contents": "Victor Ashe\n\n\nYale, Ashe was a member of the Skull and Bones society, as was George W. Bush. In 1974 he earned his law degree from the University of Tennessee College of Law. Before becoming an elected official, Ashe worked as an intern for Congressman Bill Brock, and as a staff assistant for Senator Howard Baker. In 1968 Ashe was elected to the Tennessee House of Representatives; he was only 23 years old at the time. After serving three terms in the State House, Ashe won the August 1974 Republican primary for", "id": "4089234" }, { "contents": "William Scranton\n\n\nWilliam Warren Scranton (July 19, 1917 – July 28, 2013) was an American Republican Party politician and diplomat. Scranton served as the 38th Governor of Pennsylvania from 1963 to 1967. Born into the prominent Scranton family, he graduated from Yale Law School and served in the United States Army Air Corps during World War II. After the war, he practiced law and became active in the Pennsylvania Republican Party. He won election to the United States House of Representatives in 1960 and gained a reputation as an outspoken moderate during", "id": "2852092" }, { "contents": "Carl Sandburg High School\n\n\nwon seven state championships and ranked nationally in the Public Forum style of debate. The team has also qualified teams for the prestigious Tournament of Champions hosted annually at the University of Kentucky. The debate team joins hand-in hand with the likewise successful speech team to represent the Carl Sandburg Forensics Team, which ranks, \"27 out of more than 3,000 schools nationwide\" with the combined skills of two groups. The speech team has won three state championships in the past three years alone. Both the Carl Sandburg High School debate", "id": "5130360" }, { "contents": "1984 United States presidential debates\n\n\nAs part of the 1984 United States presidential election, on October 11, 1984, the Democratic Party nominee for Vice President of the United States, Representative Geraldine Ferraro from New York, and the Republican Party nominee, incumbent Vice President George H.W. Bush, participated in a televised campaign debate. The debate was the first vice presidential debate to feature a woman and was the only vice presidential debate in the race. It was moderated by Sander Vanocur of ABC News and held at the Philadelphia Civic Center. Ferraro handled a question about", "id": "8038871" }, { "contents": "John Sergeant (politician)\n\n\nJohn Sergeant (December 5, 1779 – November 23, 1852) was an American politician who represented Pennsylvania in the United States House of Representatives. He was the National Republican Party's vice presidential nominee in the 1832 presidential election, serving on a ticket with Senator Henry Clay. After graduating from Princeton University, Sergeant served in the Philadelphia government and won election to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives. As a member of the Federalist Party, he won election to the United States House of Representatives, serving from 1815 to 1823.", "id": "13981713" }, { "contents": "Marc Elias\n\n\nfrom Duke University and a J.D. degree from Duke University School of Law. Elias is the head of the Political Law practice at Perkins Coie, a large Seattle-based law firm with many political clients. As such he represents the Democratic National Committee, Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee, Democratic Governors Association, and many Democratic members of Congress. He has represented the leadership of the House of Representatives and U.S. Senate. He was the attorney of record for the 2004 presidential campaign of John Kerry and the 2016", "id": "1671729" }, { "contents": "Richard S. Arnold\n\n\nthe Classical Studies program at Phillips Exeter Academy in New Hampshire in 1953. He then attended Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, where he majored in Latin and Greek, was president of the Yale Debating Association, a member of the Elizabethan Club, and was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He graduated \"summa cum laude\" first in his class in 1957 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. He received his Bachelor of Laws from Harvard Law School in 1960, again graduating first in his class, just ahead of another", "id": "7609505" }, { "contents": "John Kunich\n\n\nYork City and Nashville. Professor Kunich has participated in more than 100 presentations or debates during the last few years. He has spoken at Oxford University, the Royal Geographical Society, the Indian Law Institute, Jinan University, and more than 75 different law schools. His speaking events have been held at such United States law schools as Yale, Columbia, Stanford, University of Chicago, Duke, Berkeley, Georgetown, New York University, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, George Washington University, Boston University, and dozens more. He also", "id": "5203585" }, { "contents": "African-American candidates for President of the United States\n\n\nto participate in the early nationally televised Democratic Party primary debates, and earned him a speaking slot at the 2004 Democratic Convention, the same year future president Barack Obama gained national attention for his convention speech. On the Republican side, Keyes first ran for the nomination in 1996 seeking to get his party to focus on social issues such as abortion. Keyes garnered a lot of free media during this campaign. The number of primary votes Keyes received increased from his 1996 campaign (471,716) to his 2000 campaign (914,548) but", "id": "7479440" }, { "contents": "Zachary D. Kaufman\n\n\n, Yale University, the University of Oxford (where he was a Marshall Scholar), and Yale Law School. While an undergraduate at Yale (from 1996 to 2000), Kaufman was the student body president and co-captain of the Yale wrestling team. He was also an All-American and Runner-up National Champion in the National Collegiate Wrestling Association. He received his B.A. (Bachelor’s) degree in Political Science in 2000. In 2004, Kaufman received his M.Phil (Master's) degree in International Relations", "id": "18861574" }, { "contents": "Brian Meyer (politician)\n\n\nBrian Meyer (born 1973) is an American lawyer and politician from the state of Iowa. A member of the Democratic Party, Meyer serves in the Iowa House of Representatives, representing the 33rd district. He previously served on the Des Moines, Iowa City Council. Meyer was born in Dubuque, Iowa. He graduated from Dubuque Senior High School, the University of Northern Iowa and Drake University Law School. He served in the Iowa National Guard. He served as an assistant Iowa attorney general and assistant Polk County attorney.", "id": "7736234" }, { "contents": "Guy Vander Jagt\n\n\nat the Tustin Presbyterian Church while still a student at Cadillac High School. He graduated from Hope College in Holland in 1953. While a student at Hope College, he was the state debate champion of Michigan for three years and won the National Oratorical Championship during his senior year. He was also the student body president during his senior year and worked as a radio disc jockey at WHTC. Vander Jagt went on to attend Yale Divinity School, graduating in 1955 with a B.D.. In 1956, he received a Rotary Foundation Fellowship", "id": "18820468" }, { "contents": "Ray Thornton\n\n\nRaymond Hoyt \"Ray\" Thornton Jr. (July 16, 1928 – April 13, 2016) was an American attorney and politician. He was a Democratic U.S. Representative for Arkansas' 4th congressional district from 1973 to 1979 and the 2nd district from 1991 to 1997. Thornton was born in Conway, Arkansas. A graduate of Sheridan High School, Thornton earned a degree in political science from Yale University and, later, a Juris Doctorate from the University of Arkansas School of Law at Fayetteville, Arkansas. He served in the United", "id": "16514994" }, { "contents": "Lewis Beach\n\n\nLewis Beach (March 30, 1835 – August 10, 1886) was an American politician and a U.S. Representative from New York representing two different congressional districts, the fourteenth and the fifteenth. Born in New York City, New York Beach was graduated from the Yale Law School in 1856. Beach was admitted to the bar in 1856 and commenced practice in New York. He moved to Orange County, New York, in 1861, and served as member and treasurer of the Democratic State central committee from 1877 to 1879. Elected", "id": "6097447" }, { "contents": "John Danforth\n\n\nHenry Danforth, is former chancellor of Washington University in St. Louis. Danforth attended St. Louis Country Day School and went on to Princeton University where he received his bachelor's degree in Religion in 1958. He received degrees from Yale Law School and Yale Divinity School in 1963. Danforth practiced law at the New York law firm Davis Polk & Wardwell from 1963-1968 Before Danforth entered Republican politics, Missouri was a reliably Democratic state with both its U.S. Senators and Governors regularly being Democrats. Prior to Symington, Danforth's seat in", "id": "16432346" }, { "contents": "Arnold M. Zack\n\n\nArnold M. Zack served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor management disputes since 1957. Born on October 7, 1931 in Lynn Massachusetts, he is a graduate of Tufts College (BA 1953), Yale Law School (LLB 1956) and the Harvard University Graduate School of Public Administration (MPA 1961). He was a Fulbright Scholar, a Wertheim Fellow, President of the National Academy of Arbitrators and member of the College of Labor and Employment Lawyers. He served as a judge of the Asian Development Bank Administrative Tribunal and", "id": "18697017" }, { "contents": "Josiah Spaulding\n\n\nJosiah Augustus \"Si\" Spaulding (December 21, 1922 – March 27, 1983) was an American businessman, attorney, and politician. Spaulding graduated from the Hotchkiss School and Yale University in 1947, where he was a member of Skull and Bones. He served three years as a pilot for the US Marine Corps during World War II and was discharged as a first lieutenant. He attended Columbia Law School. Spaulding served as the chairman of the Massachusetts Republican Party from 1967 to 1969. He was the Republican nominee for", "id": "10795500" }, { "contents": "Lloyd Cutler\n\n\nLloyd Norton Cutler (November 10, 1917 – May 8, 2005) was an American attorney who served as White House Counsel during the Democratic administrations of Presidents Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton. Cutler was born in New York City. His father was a trial lawyer. He graduated from Yale University in 1936 at age 18, with a bachelor's degree in history and economics. In college, he was a member of Elihu. Three years later, he graduated \"magna cum laude\" from Yale Law School, where he", "id": "8970710" }, { "contents": "William Pitt Debating Union\n\n\nthe WPDU has previously won the Pennsylvania State Debating Championship, qualified for the National Debate Tournament forty-one times, and captured the 1981 National Debate Tournament national championship. In addition, at the 1947 Grand National Forensic Tournament, a two-man affirmative debate team won the national championship competing against 89 other teams, while Pitt's negative team finished as runners-up. The WPDU has also finished first in the American Debate Association’s varsity rankings and its debaters have won hundreds of individual speaking awards. In the past the", "id": "4886459" }, { "contents": "Jim Nussle\n\n\nJames Allen Nussle (born June 27, 1960) is the president and chief executive officer of the Credit Union National Association. He is a former American politician. Nussle served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from 1991 to 2007, was the Republican nominee for the 2006 Iowa gubernatorial election, losing to Democrat Chet Culver and was the director of the Office of Management and Budget from 2007 to 2009. Nussle was born in Des Moines, Iowa. After high school, Nussle studied in Denmark (his political", "id": "19703163" } ]

[ { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nJames Rooney (born 10 December 1945 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former association football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 FIFA World Cup squad in West Germany. Rooney was a left winger who played first team football with Lochee United, Peterborough United and Montrose F.C. in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1960s. He was an instant success there with Ukrainian Essendon Lions before transferring to Sydney to join the Prague club in 1970, and later playing at APIA Leichhardt, in", "id": "318576" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\n1974 FIFA World Cup campaign, earning himself many admirers for his hard tackling and ball distribution. The Jimmy Rooney Medal, awarded from 1992 onwards to the man of the match in the Victorian Premier League Grand Final, was named in his honour. He has recently settled to a managerial role of Victorian senior team, Eastern Lions, and also hosts a junior training program. He is also currently the head coach of the first eleven soccer team at St Kevin's College, Melbourne, Australia. In his second season in charge", "id": "318578" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nthe New South Wales First Division. In 1977, with APIA not joining the newly formed National Soccer League, Rooney joined Marconi Fairfield for two seasons, before moving back to Victoria where he played with Fitzroy Alexander and Croydon City Arrows. He made his Australian debut against a England XI in 1971, going on play 57 times for his country (although he also accrued caps in \"B\" team fixtures, bringing the total to 102) in a career spanning a decade. He was Australia's first choice midfielder in the", "id": "318577" }, { "contents": "Ronald Chitiyo\n\n\nRonald Chitiyo (born 10 June 1992), commonly known as Rooney, is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national team. Chitiyo, son of former footballer Frank Chitiyo, began his senior career with Douglas Warriors. Two years later, he would leave to join Monomotapa United, during his time with Monomotapa he finished as second runner-up in the 2012 Soccer Star of the Year award. In 2013, Chitiyo had trials at South African Premier Soccer League", "id": "230018" }, { "contents": "Jim Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nJim Rooney (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional soccer player who played as both a midfielder and a striker. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Soccer League team Boca Raton FC. Jim Rooney was born in The Bronx, New York City. Rooney played college soccer at Fordham University and C.W. Post. At C.W. Post, he played with the Pioneers. He currently holds the school's record for most goals in a single season: 21. Rooney began his professional career in 1994 with", "id": "327338" }, { "contents": "Wayne Rooney\n\n\nWayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles. He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United. At club level, he has won every honour available in English, European and Continental football, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup. Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the", "id": "20357111" }, { "contents": "Mark Rooney\n\n\nMark Rooney (born 13 December 1983) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker. He is the elder brother of Adam Rooney. Rooney began his senior career at Dublin City before joining UCD in 2003 where he broke into the Student's first team. Rooney only stayed at Belfield Park for one season before joining his former manager at UCD, Paul Doolin at Drogheda United in 2004. Despite a difficult season for him personally, only scoring one league goal in 22 appearances, Rooney was part of the Drogheda United", "id": "21841504" }, { "contents": "Bobby Rooney\n\n\nRobert Rooney (8 July 1938 – 9 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who made 47 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City. He played as a winger. Rooney was born in Cowie, Stirling, and began his football career with Clydebank Juniors in his native Scotland before joining English Second Division club Sheffield United in 1958. He played occasionally in his first two seasons with the club, but not thereafter. In the 1962–63 season, he was registered with three clubs:", "id": "776620" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Gabriel\n\n\nJames Gabriel (born 10 October 1940) is a Scottish former football midfielder, who earned two caps with the Scotland national football team. Chiefly associated with English club Everton, Gabriel played extensively in Scotland and England before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach in both England and the USA, where he lives today. Jimmy Gabriel first came to the attention of Dundee when he played at right-half for the Scotland under-15 schoolboys in an international at Dens Park.", "id": "5028700" }, { "contents": "Con Boutsianis\n\n\nConstantinos \"Con\" Boutsianis (born 27 December 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former international, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Boutsianis began his career with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in 1989, and soon established himself as a goalscoring midfielder. He left South at the end of the 1994/95 season to join Heidelberg United for the 1996 Victorian Premier League season, before joining Collingwood Warriors for their one and only season in the NSL. Following the club's demise at", "id": "4070407" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\nSteven Laurie (born 30 October 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who played as a defender. He played in England with West Ham United's youth academy and Peterborough United, before returning to Australia to play for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League and Sydney FC in the A-League. He is currently the head manager of Geelong SC. Steve Laurie started his professional youth career with the Victorian Institute of Sport, spending a year at the academy in 1997", "id": "21322154" }, { "contents": "David Jones (footballer, born 1955)\n\n\nDavid Jones (born 1 April 1955 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian former soccer player and coach. Jones played his junior soccer for Kwinana United before graduating to the senior team in 1970. He remained with the club until the end of the 1975 season, where he won the Rothmans Gold Medal award for the season's fairest and best player. In 1976 Jones played for East Fremantle Tricolore. In the first year of the National Soccer League in 1977 he played for West Adelaide and was part of the club", "id": "12543554" }, { "contents": "Luke Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nLuke William Rooney (born 28 December 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and is a free agent after leaving his most recent club, Welling United. Born in Bermondsey, London, Rooney joined Gillingham as an apprentice professional in 2007. He forced his way into the first team squad in early December 2008 and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup second round replay at Stockport County. In early 2009 he was loaned out to Lewes of the Conference National, where he made six appearances. He turned", "id": "6731049" }, { "contents": "Preston Lions FC\n\n\nthe Year Bill Fleming Medal – Media voted VPL Player of the Year Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year Victorian Premier League Under 21 Player of the Year Jimmy Rooney Medal – VPL Grand Final Man of the Match Weinstein Medal Junior Player of the Year Australian Representatives – Senior Level National Representatives – Youth Team Victorian State Representatives – Senior Level ● Preston Makedonia Inaugural season *Victorian Provisional League* 1959 - 4th - 10 Teams in League. ● Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2", "id": "19353574" }, { "contents": "Bob Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nRobert “Bob” Rooney was a U.S. soccer center forward who spent his playing career in the St. Louis leagues. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957. Rooney grew up in the Dogtown area of St. Louis, attending St. James Grade School and St. Louis University High School. As a youth, he played both football and baseball in addition to soccer spending five seasons with a St. Louis Cardinals farm team. Even while playing in the local St. Louis soccer leagues, Rooney earned a living as a", "id": "2939914" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\n, before moving to England, joining the youth academy of West Ham United F.C. in 1998. Laurie remained with the Hammers academy until 2002, then moving to Peterborough United F.C.. He returned to Australia after being lured back by former Rangers F.C. player and then coach Stuart Munro to play for National Soccer League powerhouse South Melbourne FC in the last season of the NSL. Laurie was one of the first six signings for the newly formed Hyundai A-League club Sydney FC, although later he was released from his contract via mutual", "id": "21322155" }, { "contents": "William McLachlan (footballer)\n\n\nWilliam McLachlan (born 19 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Airdrie United and for Australian club Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. McLachlan began his career with Rangers and appeared for the Scotland U-16 team in a Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland in October 2004. In December 2008, he joined Airdrie United on loan. He made his debut against St Johnstone on 20 December.", "id": "18351658" }, { "contents": "Joe Montemurro\n\n\nJoseph Adrian Montemurro (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian former soccer player, currently the manager of Arsenal Women. Montemurro played as a midfielder during his short professional career, mainly in Italy, before returning to Australia to play in the Victorian state leagues. He began coaching in youth football for various Victorian clubs, before his first managerial role with Sunshine George Cross, and then later, Coburg United. His first job abroad came in 2013, spending four months as the inaugural manager of Papa New Guinean side Port Moresby", "id": "14957118" }, { "contents": "Tommy Rooney\n\n\nTommy Rooney (born 30 December 1984) is an English footballer who played for League Two club Macclesfield Town during the 2004–05 season as a striker and later played non-league football for Vauxhall Motors. Tommy, who is the cousin of Wayne, John and Graeme Rooney, began his career at Tranmere Rovers, where he played in the youth and reserve sides but did not break into the first-team. He joined League Two club Macclesfield Town in May 2004 on a one-year contract and made two league and cup", "id": "9458597" }, { "contents": "Steven Weir\n\n\nSteven Weir (born 3 October 1988) is a Scottish Junior footballer who plays as a striker for West of Scotland Super League Premier Division club Arthurlie. Born in Harthill, Scotland, he started his career with Livingston, where he also spent a spell on loan at Cowdenbeath. He joined Arbroath before moving to Australia where he played for North Eastern Soccer League side, Shepparton South. He scored 28 goals in 12 games in his first season with the club, and played his first match for the team four hours after arriving", "id": "18510479" }, { "contents": "Jimmy McDonnell\n\n\nJames McDonnell (1927 – 30 September 2017) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team spanned three decades from 1948 until 1960. Born in Darver, County Louth, McDonnell first played competitive Gaelic football with the Darver Volunteers club. He won a junior league medal in 1952 before winning a county junior championship medal in 1956. From 1961 onward McDonnell played with the newly-formed St. Joseph's club. McDonnell made his debut with the Louth senior team during", "id": "4115167" }, { "contents": "Sean Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nSean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the", "id": "16687041" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)\n\n\nJames E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee, and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock. Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928. In a five-and-a-half-year career with", "id": "9343677" }, { "contents": "Dylan Murnane\n\n\nDylan Murnane (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a left back for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. In 2012, Murnane was a member of the Port Melbourne SC side that won promotion to the Victorian Premier League and reached the final of the State Knockout Cup, before he was recruited by the Melbourne Victory Youth team. After initially joining the club as member of the youth team in late 2012, Murnane made his professional debut with home town giants Melbourne Victory against Sydney", "id": "12515687" }, { "contents": "Jim Tansey\n\n\nJim Tansey (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian former association football player. The son of Everton footballer Jimmy Tansey, Tansey was born in Liverpool, England in 1953. He emigrated to Australia in 1974. Tansey began his senior playing career for South Liverpool F.C.. After moving to Australia, he played for Slavia Melbourne in the Victorian State League. With the start of the National Soccer League (NSL), Tansey moved to Fitzroy United Alexander. He later played for NSL club Footscray JUST. Between 1975 and 1981", "id": "10339389" }, { "contents": "Ray McKinnon (footballer)\n\n\nRaymond McKinnon (born 5 August 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the manager of Falkirk. As a player, McKinnon was a midfielder whose clubs included Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Aberdeen, Livingston, Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also represented the Scotland under-21 team. McKinnon began his managerial career in junior football with Lochee United before managing senior clubs Brechin City, Raith Rovers, Dundee United, Morton and left just three months later for Falkirk. McKinnon was born in Dundee on 5 August", "id": "4406705" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Douglas (Canadian soccer)\n\n\nJimmy Douglas (born October 6, 1948 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish-Canadian soccer midfielder and head coach. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League and earned fourteen caps for the Canadian national soccer team. Born in Scotland, Douglas moved to Canada in 1964 when he was sixteen. He almost immediately began playing for St. Catharines Heidelberg in the National Soccer League and by 1970 was in the first team. In 1974, he played in the North American Soccer League with the Toronto Metros before returning", "id": "12329068" }, { "contents": "Gary Hasler\n\n\nGary Hasler (born 5 May 1970) is an Australian former association football player. he played in the National Soccer League for Sunshine George Cross and South Melbourne. In international football, he made two appearances for Australia and also represented the country at the 1992 Olympics. Hasler joined Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League in 1989. In 1992, he joined South Melbourne. After two seasons he moved to Heidelberg in the Victorian Premier League. Hasler was a member of the Australian squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In", "id": "18353802" }, { "contents": "Sebastian Ryall\n\n\nSebastian \"Seb\" Ryall (born 18 July 1989) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender, most recently for Sydney FC. Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Football Club in Sydney. Ryall later played for the AIS in the Victorian Premier League before signing for Melbourne Victory on a 2-year contract in August 2007. He made his first appearance for the club in their round 3 match against Adelaide United and played in their Grand Final win over Adelaide in March 2009. In April 2009", "id": "1237851" }, { "contents": "Cameron Watson (footballer)\n\n\nCameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side Moreland Zebras FC. Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move", "id": "15681415" }, { "contents": "Jack Ross (footballer, born 1976)\n\n\nJohn James Ross (born 5 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the manager of English League One club Sunderland. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He", "id": "9812399" }, { "contents": "Jesse Daley\n\n\nJesse Daley (born 16 October 1997) is an Australian soccer player who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship. Daley spent time at Queensland Academy of Sport, before playing with the youth team at Brisbane Roar, before spending time with Melbourne Victory following his release from the club, before again playing with Brisbane Roar. Daley joined National Premier Leagues Victoria side South Melbourne FC ahead of their 2017 season. He left the club in January 2018, joining National Premier League side Lions FC. Following a trial, Daley", "id": "13637473" }, { "contents": "Steven Pace\n\n\nSteven Pace (born 6 March 1983) is an Australian footballer who plays for Heidelberg United FC. Earlier in his career, Pace played for various Victorian teams, including South Melbourne, Essendon Royals and the Preston Lions. He has been described as a \"utility\" player, having played as a midfielder as well as a central defender. He played in the latter position for the Preston Lions in their successful 2007 campaign, when they won the Victorian Premier League Championship. When the Melbourne Victory signed Pace in October 2007,", "id": "2478195" }, { "contents": "Evans Rusike\n\n\nEvans Rusike (born 13 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for Premier Soccer League side Supersport United in South Africa. He also plays for the Zimbabwe national team. Rusike began his career in Zimbabwe with Kiglon in 2010, before moving to Zimbabwe Saints in 2012. Three years later, in 2015, he left his homeland for the first time as he agreed to join South African Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United. His league debut came on 22 August against Ajax Cape Town. At the end", "id": "8298403" }, { "contents": "Tarek Elrich\n\n\nTarek Elrich (born 1 January 1987) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a right back and midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League. Elrich was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his senior career with Sydney Olympic, before moving to Newcastle Jets in 2006. In 2012, he moved to new club Western Sydney Wanderers before moving again to Adelaide United one season later. Tarek played youth football for Australia, before being called up to the Lebanon national team in 2012.", "id": "21014072" }, { "contents": "Dominic Smith (footballer)\n\n\nDominic Rooney Smith (born 22 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Northern Premier League North Division side Droylsden. He began his career with Crewe Alexandra, where he progressed through the club's Academy, but failed to make a first team appearance. He joined Colchester United in 2014, where he made his Football League debut in September 2014. He had a brief loan spell at A.F.C. Hornchurch, before leaving Colchester after the expiry of his one-year deal. He has since represented numerous Northern", "id": "18972781" }, { "contents": "Dave Harding\n\n\nDavid Harding (born 14 August 1946) is a former football (soccer) midfielder. He played for Wrexham from 1965 to 1966, then South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, before moving to Australia where he played for Pan Hellenic, Western Suburbs, Blacktown City and APIA until 1981. In this time he won NSW representative honours in 1974 against Bristol Rovers. Harding was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany and represented Australia 45 times between 1974 and 1977 scoring 11 times. More recently he", "id": "3031486" }, { "contents": "George Howard (footballer)\n\n\nGeorge Howard (born 8 October 1996) is an English-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker. George Howard moved to Australia with his family aged 1 or 15 from England where he had participated in the Sheffield United Academy, and was playing senior football for then fourth tier Victorian State League Division 1 side Eastern Lions by age 16. Howard joined National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 club Box Hill United in 2014, and was recruited to the Melbourne Victory Youth squad by Darren Davies in 2015. He trialled with the", "id": "12301976" }, { "contents": "George Slifkas\n\n\nGeorge Slifkas (born 18 October 1969) is an Australian former association football player. Slifkas played for Preston Makedonia, Heidelberg United and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s he dropped down to the Victorian Premier League where he played for the Bulleen Lions, the Thomastown Zebras and the Melbourne Raiders. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Slifkas played four matches as Australia placed fourth. In 1993 Slifkas made his first and only international appearance for Australia as a substitute in a match against", "id": "18566415" }, { "contents": "Luciano Trani\n\n\nLuciano Trani (born 10 August 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former football (soccer) player who was most recently the manager of National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side North Geelong Warriors FC. Trani began coaching at the Victorian Premier League and National Soccer League levels with the Fawkner Blues, Essendon Royals, Whittlesea Stallions, Brisbane Strikers and the Melbourne Knights. He then took up roles as a coaching instructor for Football Federation Victoria and Head Coach of Pascoe Vale FC, before joining Wellington Phoenix. He then transferred to", "id": "3270514" }, { "contents": "Touk Miller\n\n\n. Such was his talent, he was selected to represent the under 15 Victorian state cricket team at the national championships in March 2011 and made his first XI debut for the North Melbourne Cricket Club at the Junction Oval in December 2011 before electing to focus on football the following year. Miller played all of his junior years with the Maribyrnong Park Lions in the Essendon District Football League and made his senior debut for the club in 2011 at the age of 15. He played junior football for both St Kevin's College in the", "id": "17982973" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Bullard\n\n\nJames Richard Bullard (born 23 October 1978) is an English former footballer, coach and television presenter. He is currently co-host of the Saturday morning Sky TV show Soccer AM. As a player he was a midfielder and played youth football at West Ham United before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet in 1998. Two seasons at Peterborough United was followed by a spell at Wigan Athletic where he scored ten goals in 145 league appearances, helping them to their first promotion to the Premier League. Bullard was known for being a", "id": "8289895" }, { "contents": "Kieran Dover\n\n\nKieran Dover is an Australian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Green Gully in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. From Stockton-on-Tees, Dover started his career at the youth team of Sunderland before moving to Australia at the age of twelve, where he joined the youth ranks at Berwick City. He then eventually went on to join Dandenong Thunder of the NPL Victoria where he was named Winning Edge Presentations Rising Star of the Month in August. He also played for the Melbourne Victory youth sides in", "id": "8333803" }, { "contents": "Andrew Robertson\n\n\nAndrew Robertson (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. Robertson began his senior career with Queen's Park in 2012 before joining Dundee United a year later. His form in his first season as a professional led to him being named SPFA Young Player of the Year and also making his international debut. He joined Hull City in July 2014 for a fee of £2.85 million, before joining Liverpool in July 2017 for an", "id": "17961904" }, { "contents": "Steve Hayward\n\n\nSteve Hayward (born 8 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder in a sixteen-year career spanning from 1988 to 2004. Born in Pelsall near Walsall, Hayward began his career with Derby County and made his League debut in 1990, but found first-team opportunities limited. He joined Carlisle United in 1994 and won two promotions from Division Three and the 1997 Football League Trophy Final during his time at the club before moving to Fulham in 1997. He played a role in Fulham", "id": "6088205" }, { "contents": "Vince Lia\n\n\nVince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Adelaide United in the A-League. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior debut with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League. He spent one season with Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues in 2005 before joining Melbourne Victory in 2005 to play in the newly-formed A-League. Lia next spent a decade at Wellington Phoenix, making over 200 appearances for the club in all competitions. He", "id": "5478442" }, { "contents": "Peter Stone (footballer)\n\n\nPeter Stone (born 30 September 1954) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Stone played his junior football for Adamstown before playing for Western Suburbs in the New South Wales state league (1973–1976) and the National Soccer League (1977). In 1978, he moved to APIA Leichhardt, where he played three NSL seasons. Stone moved to St. George in 1980 where he played two seasons. Stone made his international debut for Australia in 1976 against Hong Kong. He also played over in England for Tottenham Hotspur", "id": "5877228" }, { "contents": "Sean Cranney\n\n\nSean Cranney (born 2 October 1973) is an Australian former association football player. Cranney played for Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club before joining Brisbane United in the Queensland state league in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was signed to National Soccer League team Brisbane Strikers. At the Strikers he played five seasons before moving to Northern Spirit for the 1990/2000 season. Cranney played for Australia at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Cranney made his full international debut in November 1996 for Australia in an OFC Nations Cup match against New", "id": "18125994" }, { "contents": "Derek Spalding\n\n\nDerek Spalding (born 20 December 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former soccer player, who played as a defender. Spalding played for Hibernian in the Scottish Football League until he emigrated to the United States in 1977. He then played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least two in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the US national team, in 1982. Growing up in Scotland, Spalding signed with First Division club Hibernian as a youth player. He worked his way", "id": "11180604" }, { "contents": "Ross Barkley\n\n\n23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 but did not appear in any of England's matches. Managers and teammates have compared his style of play to those of Michael Ballack, Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Barkley was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. He joined Everton as an 11-year-old and played for the club's youth teams. He was named as a substitute in a first team league match in early 2010–11, and was expected to make his Premier League debut before his leg was broken in one place after a collision with", "id": "7578236" }, { "contents": "Erick Chipeta\n\n\nErick Chipeta (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Zimbabwe national team. Chipeta started his career in Zimbabwe with Hwange Colliery, where he remained for two years before leaving his homeland for South Africa for the first time. 2014 saw Chipeta join newly promoted Premier Soccer League side Chippa United. He made his debut for Chippa in a 1–1 draw at home to Mamelodi Sundowns on 22 October. In total he made 18 appearances and scored 1 goal in his first season", "id": "6134269" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\nShaun Antony Rooney (born 26 July 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Rooney has previously played for Queen's Park, Dunfermline Athletic, York City and Queen of the South. Rooney was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. Rooney started his career playing youth football with Bellshill Boys Club and Dundee United, before signing with Scottish League Two club Queen's Park in July 2013. Rooney's first-team debut came shortly after signing for the club, in", "id": "16210765" }, { "contents": "Robert Trajkovski\n\n\nRobert Trajkovski (born 24 July 1972) is an Australian former footballer. Trajkovski began his senior career with Altona before moving to National Soccer League team Melbourne City. After a season with Melbourne City Trajkovski transferred to Sydney United. He played two season for United between 1995 and 1997. In the 1997/98 season Trajkovski played for Carlton, playing 22 matches. Trajkovski moved to Perth Glory for the 1998/99 season. After playing 73 matches over three seasons for the Glory he moved to Northern Spirit where he saw out his top flight career", "id": "5112927" }, { "contents": "Sasa Macura\n\n\nSasa Macura is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Manly United in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Macura played youth football for Northern Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Bonnyrigg White Eagles before moving to Hungary. There, he made his professional debut for MTK Budapest as well as playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II for MTK's reserve team and Szigetszentmiklósi. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for Blacktown City. He moved to Manly United in 2017. Macura was born in", "id": "14725944" }, { "contents": "Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)\n\n\nPhilip Anthony Jones (born 21 February 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Manchester United and the English national team. Before joining Manchester United, Jones played for Blackburn Rovers at both youth and senior levels. Although primarily a centre-back, he has also been used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Jones has represented England at various levels and is currently a member of the England senior squad. He played for the under-19 team in 2009 before making his debut for the under-21 team in 2010", "id": "13966664" }, { "contents": "Paul Bilokapic\n\n\nPaul Bilokapic (born 8 August 1976) is an Australian former soccer player. He played as a midfielder. After playing youth football for Yaralla, he moved to Sydney Croatia (later Sydney United) where he played until the end of the 1997–98 National Soccer League season. After two seasons with Northern Spirit FC, he returned to Sydney United, where he played until the end of the 2002–03 National Soccer League season. Bilokapic made his full international debut for Australia in February 1998 in a friendly match against Chile. He made", "id": "10116884" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875)\n\n\nJames Jackson (15 September 1875 – after 1914) was a footballer who played as a full back or at wing half. Jackson's family emigrated from Scotland to Australia where he was raised and where he began his senior football career while still in his early teens. He returned to Scotland in 1893, appearing in Junior football and briefly for Rangers before moving to England to join Newcastle United. Two years later he signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he spent six seasons, captaining the club in its inaugural season in the Football League", "id": "19786821" }, { "contents": "David Carney\n\n\nDavid Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC. Born in Sydney, he began his playing career with the New South Wales Institute of Sport before moving to England to join Everton. Having failed to break into the Everton first team he then moved to Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical in Scotland before returning to his native Australia. After a successful spell with Sydney FC, Carney then returned to England, signing with Sheffield United before", "id": "3576647" }, { "contents": "John Pritchard (footballer)\n\n\nJohn Vincent Pritchard (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Ashton United. Pritchard was in his youth a trainee by Manchester United, before joined in April 2012 to Oldham Athletic. He made his debut for Oldham Athletic on 21 December 2013 in a 2–0 defeat to Colchester United at Boundary Park, he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Adam Rooney. After two seasons was released and joined in August 2014 to FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League", "id": "278653" }, { "contents": "APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC\n\n\nhistory of the club when skipper Jimmy Rooney and centreforward Peter Ollerton, who scored five goals, won 9–1 against Auburn in front of a crowd of 5210 at Wentworth Park, the highest finals result ever. Rooney and Ollerton were also in the team that represented Australia a few months later in its first World Cup participation in Germany. In 1979 APIA was given access to the National Soccer League, the top tier of Australian soccer since 1977. In 1987 APIA won the national championship, six points ahead of the Preston Makedonia Soccer", "id": "17492652" }, { "contents": "Ante Moric\n\n\nAnte Tomislav Moric (born 19 April 1974) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Leagues Victoria side Dandenong City SC. Moric played at club level in Australia and Croatia for St. George, AIS, Sydney United, Zadar, Canberra Cosmos, Sydney Olympic, Fraser Park, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Rockdale City Suns. He also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After a stint with the youth side of National Premier Leagues NSW 2 side St George", "id": "5169013" }, { "contents": "John May (Australian footballer)\n\n\nJohn May (born 15 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). May was recruited to play for Essendon's under-19s from West Coburg in the Essendon District Football League. In 1970, his second season with the under-19s, he was named captain and also played several matches in the reserves before making his senior VFL debut late in the season. He kicked one goal from his three games playing as a midfielder and stayed with Essendon for another year, but", "id": "16685305" }, { "contents": "Andrew Fox (footballer)\n\n\nAndrew Thomas Philip Fox (born 15 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fox began his playing career during his time at university, playing football in the USA for 4 years with St. Edward's University Soccer Team. After a short spell at Texan club Midland/Odessa Sockers, Fox moved back to England in July 2015, where he joined League One side Peterborough United on a free transfer. He joined National League side Kidderminster Harriers on loan", "id": "3891979" }, { "contents": "Petar Franjic\n\n\nPetar Franjic (born 7 April 1992) is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Avondale FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Franjic joined the Melbourne Knights FC under 21 squad in 2009 after spending a number of years with the Victorian Institute of Sport. That year, he made his breakthrough into senior football, making six appearances for the first team in the Victorian Premier League in the first half of the season. He was then picked up by A-League side Melbourne Victory FC, initially with the youth team.", "id": "1076969" }, { "contents": "Jacob Burns (soccer)\n\n\nJacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory. Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay. His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October", "id": "5439205" }, { "contents": "Zander Diamond\n\n\nAlexander Kevin \"Zander\" Diamond (born 12 March 1985) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He began his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen, before moving to Oldham Athletic in 2011; he later played for Burton Albion, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town in England. He won eleven caps for Scotland under-21s. Raised in the west of Scotland in Dumbarton, Alexandria-born Diamond graduated from the youth team at Aberdeen in his first full season and made his League debut against Dundee", "id": "20263817" }, { "contents": "Hilton Kotzur\n\n\nHilton Kotzur (born 20 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kotzur represented New South Wales as a junior, but was also a member of the Victorian team which won the 1981 Teal Cup, earning All-Australian honours He joined the Swans when they were still based in Melbourne and played both Under-19s and reserves football for the club, before he fractured two vertebrae in 1982. The back injury stalled his career and it was not until", "id": "20658877" }, { "contents": "Christopher Forrester\n\n\nChristopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland Premier Division. He has also previously played for Bohemians, Peterborough United, Aberdeen and the Republic of Ireland under-21's. In March 2016 he was called up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad but has yet to be capped. Forrester started his schoolboy career with his local team, Smithfield, where he stayed for three seasons. He played for Bohemians for three seasons before", "id": "3737210" }, { "contents": "James Meyer (footballer)\n\n\nJames Meyer (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Queensland club Brisbane City. Born in Sydney, Meyer started his youth career with Brisbane City FC in 2005. The following year Meyer went to Europe and signed on as a youth player for Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and then Hertha BSC of Germany the next year. He then returned to Australia in 2008 to play for Olympic FC of the Queensland State League before joining Eastern Suburbs F.C. of the Brisbane Premier League", "id": "21300581" }, { "contents": "Billy Ions\n\n\nRooney and Spanish forward Fernando Torres to whom he compared himself to. Ions first started playing football in the youth team of the local village of Valle de San Lorenzo in Tenerife, named \"Constanza\". Years later he started to play in the football school of Juan Miguel. At the age of 15, Ions joined the youth setup at CD Tenerife. In February 2010, he returned to England to join Newcastle United, the club he supported as a child. He made his Under-18's debut in a home match against", "id": "2185330" }, { "contents": "Jason Geria\n\n\nJason Kato Geria (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for JEF United Chiba in the J2 League and for the Australia national team. Born in Canberra, Geria played youth football with the Australian Institute of Sport and Brisbane Roar youth before joining Melbourne Victory in 2012, where he made his professional debut and played for five years. Geria was born in Canberra to Ugandan parents. Geria's first youth club was Weston Creek SC in Canberra. He also played in", "id": "13593993" }, { "contents": "Vincent Bezecourt\n\n\nVincent Bezecourt (born 10 June 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Bezecourt began his football career in France with Jeunesse Villenavaise and made his debut with the first team during the 2012 season in Championnat de France amateur. In two season with the first team, he appeared in 52 league matches scoring 9 goals. In 2014, he went to the United States to play College soccer for St. Francis Brooklyn under head coach Tom Giovatto. In his first", "id": "7942392" }, { "contents": "Oliver Puflett\n\n\nOliver Puflett (born 26 July 1999) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a striker for S.League club Home United. Puflett started his career with the Western Sydney Wanderers FC, playing for its Under-21 team, scoring 5 goals in 11 games over 2 years. He also won the Y-League title in the 2017-18 season with them. He played for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC Under-21 squad before signing his first professional contract and joining Singapore Premier League side Home United FC in March 2019. He then made", "id": "9045653" }, { "contents": "Massimo Luongo\n\n\nMassimo Corey Luongo ( ; born 25 September 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Queens Park Rangers and the Australian national team. Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Queens Park Rangers in 2015. Luongo has played for the Australia", "id": "15251787" }, { "contents": "Graham Moss\n\n\nGraham Moss (born 14 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who was highly successful in both the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a Brownlow Medal-winning ruckman and played 343 senior games in the WAFL and VFL. Moss debuted for Claremont Football Club in the WAFL in 1969. In 1970, he made his debut for the Western Australian state team. Essendon attempted to lure him to Melbourne several times, and finally succeeded before the", "id": "15698753" }, { "contents": "Luke Power\n\n\nLuke Power (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). A member of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premiership winning teams, he played 282 games for the Lions before moving to Greater Western Sydney where he played his final season. He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Giants. Power debuted for the Lions as an 18-year-old in 1998, and he has", "id": "12553548" }, { "contents": "Robert Ironside (footballer)\n\n\nRobert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His club career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Sydney Olympic in the Australian National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to Newcastle Breakers He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle Ironside made his All White debut in a 1-1", "id": "19673589" }, { "contents": "James Jeggo\n\n\nJames Alexander Jeggo ( ; born 12 February 1992) is an Austrian-born Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a central midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and the Australian national team. Born in Vienna, Austria, Jeggo moved to Australia as a child, where he started his footballing career in youth football with Green Gully and at the Victorian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Melbourne Victory. Jeggo was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Australia as a child, growing", "id": "5614644" }, { "contents": "Jason Trifiro\n\n\nJason Trifiro (born 3 June 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Nunawading City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. Trifiro started his career in the semi-professional lower leagues in Australia, playing in New South Wales for National Premier Leagues NSW clubs Marconi Stallions, APIA Leichhardt and the South Coast Wolves. In 2011, he moved to Victoria where he played the 2011 Victorian Premier League with Northcote alongside his brother, before they both moved to ex-NSL heavyweight South Melbourne in the National", "id": "7283672" }, { "contents": "Stephen Glass (footballer)\n\n\nStephen Glass (born 23 May 1976) is a former Scottish professional footballer who is the current head coach of Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship. A midfielder, Glass started his career at Aberdeen, with whom he won the 1995 Scottish League Cup. In 1998, he moved to England, transferring to Newcastle United of the Premier League. Shortly after joining Newcastle, Glass made an appearance for the Scotland national football team. He joined Watford in the First Division in 2001, before returning to Scotland in 2003 with Hibernian", "id": "19685891" }, { "contents": "Stephen O'Donnell (footballer, born 1983)\n\n\nStephen James O'Donnell (born 10 July 1983) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career with Dundee United, making his debut in 2002. He spent time on loan with Ross County before leaving Dundee United in 2005 to play briefly in England with Boston United. Returning to Scottish football, O'Donnell had spells with Clyde and St Mirren before joining Dundee in 2010, where he later became club captain. He rejoined Clyde in 2014 and left the club in 2015. He was a Scotland under-20 international", "id": "10873501" }, { "contents": "Brian Robinson (soccer)\n\n\nBrian Robinson (born 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He started playing at the age of ten with the Evening Optimist Club in his home town and later starred in the Victoria High School team that reached the B.C. High School final in 1966. At 17 he was playing for Vic West in the Victoria City League where he played for two years before joining Victoria United in the Pacific Coast League. By 1970 he was playing in the Western Canada Soccer League", "id": "11330905" }, { "contents": "Daniel McBreen\n\n\nDaniel James McBreen (born 23 April 1977) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW club Edgeworth, and is a coach with Newcastle Jets U15. Born in England, McBreen moved to Australia with his family when he was six weeks old and started his career in local football with Toronto Awaba Stags and Edgeworth Eagles. He earned a professional contract with National Soccer League club Newcastle United in 2000, where he played for two seasons before joining Universitatea Craiova of the Romanian Divizia A.", "id": "9649312" }, { "contents": "Tomislav Uskok\n\n\nTomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney United in the National Premier Leagues. Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club Melbourne Knights. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined Victorian State League Division 1 side St Albans Saints for the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014", "id": "8367993" }, { "contents": "Austin Berry (soccer)\n\n\nthe newly-formed club FC Cincinnati in the lower division United Soccer League. He served as FC Cincinnati's team captain for two seasons before retiring from his playing career and accepting a position as the club's strength and conditioning coach. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended the Summit Country Day School for high school where he played four fall seasons of soccer. With a 14–1–1 record during his senior year, Berry contributed 10 goals, 6 assists, and led his team to the Regional finals. He earned first team", "id": "19581628" }, { "contents": "Gary Smith (footballer, born 1968)\n\n\nGary Neil Smith (born 3 December 1968) is an English former footballer. He is currently Head Coach & Technical Director of Nashville SC in the United Soccer League, the second tier in the US soccer pyramid. Smith's playing career began at Fulham, progressing through the youth team before making one first-team appearance for the club. After a brief spell with Colchester United, Smith joined non-league side Enfield in 1989. His most successful spell during his playing days was at Wycombe Wanderers, spending two seasons with", "id": "686418" }, { "contents": "Lee Scroggins\n\n\nLeepaul Scroggins (born 23 October 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for South Shields. Scroggins began his career with Darlington, but moved on to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Blyth Spartans in 2001 without having played for Darlington's first team. He spent just over a year with Spartans, before joining Whitley Bay of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. Scroggins then moved to the United States, where he had a successful college soccer career at Lynn University, graduating in Sports Recreation", "id": "8969031" }, { "contents": "Brad Smith (footballer, born 1948)\n\n\nBrad R. Smith (born 3 December 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also had a long career in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) where he played for East Perth and coached East Fremantle. Smith was a late comer to VFL football as he had spent eight years at East Perth before joining North Melbourne. He was a member of East Perth's 1972 and 1978 premiership teams and a back pocket player in", "id": "8985200" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Dunne (footballer, born 1997)\n\n\nJames Gerard Dunne (born 19 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Burnley. Dunne played locally in Ireland before joining the youth set-up at Manchester United in 2007. After transferring to Burnley in 2016, he spent time on loan at Barrow (where he made his senior debut in August 2017) and Accrington Stanley (where he made his Football League debut in January 2018). Born in Dundalk Dunne began his career with St Kevin's Boys Club before joining the Manchester", "id": "18334762" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\na Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Ayr United at Hampden Park. During the 2013–14 season, Rooney made 11 appearances for Queen's Park. His breakthrough season came in 2014–15, when he played in 30 matches, scoring his first goal on 15 November 2014 with a header against Elgin City in a 4–1 win. Rooney's impressive performances for Queen's Park saw him awarded the club's Young Player of the Year and also being named in the PFA Scotland Scottish League Two Team of the Year. The start of 2015–16 saw Rooney", "id": "16210766" }, { "contents": "Jonas Salley\n\n\nGyawe Jonas Salley (born 16 March 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a former Ivorian-Australian footballer, who last played for Hohhot Zhongyou in China League One. He is currently an assistant coach for Qingdao Red Lions. Salley moved to Australia to escape from the civil and government problems of his home country in 2006. He first played at Mill Park Soccer Club, where his outstanding performances were noticed within a very short time. He was eventually signed up to play with Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne. He was then", "id": "20136861" }, { "contents": "Alan Green (soccer)\n\n\nAlan Green (born 1 January 1954) is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Green, a native of Worcester, England, began his professional career with Coventry City. He joined the club as a striker in 1970, but did not make his first team debut until April 22, 1972, which was", "id": "15514446" }, { "contents": "Tommy Kelly (footballer)\n\n\nTommy Kelly was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A dynamic midfielder, he is quite simply a Bohemian F.C. legend, his career at Dalymount Park spanning 3 different decades. He appeared in a club record 19 games in European competition and won 2 League of Ireland titles. He joined Bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the \"B\" team. He made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over Drogheda on April 10, 1966.", "id": "14451234" }, { "contents": "Kevin Egan\n\n\nKevin Egan (born 10 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and played in Essendon's 1965 premiership team. Egan was used mostly as a rover and wingman. After leaving Essendon Egan spent some time at both South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide and the Victorian", "id": "1551420" }, { "contents": "Kenny Hill (association footballer)\n\n\nKenneth George Hill (born 7 March 1953) is an English former association football defender who played professionally in England and the North American Soccer League. In 1971, he joined Gillingham, playing 125 league matches before leaving the team for the United States in 1974. That year, he signed with the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He also played for Maidstone United, where he began his career, Lincoln City, with whom he made a single appearance in", "id": "347314" }, { "contents": "Ray Farningham\n\n\nRay Farningham (born 10 April 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder for a handful of Scottish clubs. He previously managed Forfar Athletic, Montrose and was the assistant manager of Dundee. Ray is now assistant manager at junior side Lochee United F.C. Farningham trained as a youth with Dundee United before beginning his senior career with Forfar Athletic, making his debut towards the end of the 1970s. In his seven years at Station Park, Farningham was part of the sides which won the 1983–84 Scottish Second", "id": "3703221" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Kirk\n\n\nJames Kirk (born 12 November 1925) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Bury, Colchester United, Torquay United and Aldershot. Born in Tarbolton, Kirk began his career in Scotland with St Mirren, where he made 86 league appearances for the club, before moving to England to play for Bury, where he featured in 79 Football League matches. Kirk joined Colchester United in 1954 and spent one season with the club, making his", "id": "21920041" }, { "contents": "Gary Crouch\n\n\nGary Crouch (born 27 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After leaving Essendon, Crouch played for Rochester for one season before moving to Western Australia and joining Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He spent four seasons with Subiaco, playing on half back flank in the 1973 WAFL winning Grand Final team. He then moved back to Victoria to the Bendigo Football League (BFL). Crouch played one season with South Bendigo and", "id": "16878056" }, { "contents": "Neil Jenkins (footballer)\n\n\nNeil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Leatherhead F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team. Born in Carshalton, London, Jenkins joined the Essex based team Southend United in July 2002, on a one", "id": "9293884" }, { "contents": "John Reilly (footballer, born 1962)\n\n\nJohn Reilly (born 21 March 1962 in Dundee) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Reilly began his career with Dundee United, signing as a schoolboy from Strathtay Boys Club in 1979. He played for the Scotland Under 17 and Under 18 professional youth sides before making his first team debut in August 1980. He was a member of the squad that won a Premier League Winners medal in season 1982–1983 before going onto score the club's first ever goal in the European Cup the following season. Signing", "id": "10817319" } ]

[ { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nJames Rooney (born 10 December 1945 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former association football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 FIFA World Cup squad in West Germany. Rooney was a left winger who played first team football with Lochee United, Peterborough United and Montrose F.C. in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1960s. He was an instant success there with Ukrainian Essendon Lions before transferring to Sydney to join the Prague club in 1970, and later playing at APIA Leichhardt, in", "id": "318576" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\n1974 FIFA World Cup campaign, earning himself many admirers for his hard tackling and ball distribution. The Jimmy Rooney Medal, awarded from 1992 onwards to the man of the match in the Victorian Premier League Grand Final, was named in his honour. He has recently settled to a managerial role of Victorian senior team, Eastern Lions, and also hosts a junior training program. He is also currently the head coach of the first eleven soccer team at St Kevin's College, Melbourne, Australia. In his second season in charge", "id": "318578" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nthe New South Wales First Division. In 1977, with APIA not joining the newly formed National Soccer League, Rooney joined Marconi Fairfield for two seasons, before moving back to Victoria where he played with Fitzroy Alexander and Croydon City Arrows. He made his Australian debut against a England XI in 1971, going on play 57 times for his country (although he also accrued caps in \"B\" team fixtures, bringing the total to 102) in a career spanning a decade. He was Australia's first choice midfielder in the", "id": "318577" }, { "contents": "Ronald Chitiyo\n\n\nRonald Chitiyo (born 10 June 1992), commonly known as Rooney, is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national team. Chitiyo, son of former footballer Frank Chitiyo, began his senior career with Douglas Warriors. Two years later, he would leave to join Monomotapa United, during his time with Monomotapa he finished as second runner-up in the 2012 Soccer Star of the Year award. In 2013, Chitiyo had trials at South African Premier Soccer League", "id": "230018" }, { "contents": "Jim Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nJim Rooney (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional soccer player who played as both a midfielder and a striker. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Soccer League team Boca Raton FC. Jim Rooney was born in The Bronx, New York City. Rooney played college soccer at Fordham University and C.W. Post. At C.W. Post, he played with the Pioneers. He currently holds the school's record for most goals in a single season: 21. Rooney began his professional career in 1994 with", "id": "327338" }, { "contents": "Wayne Rooney\n\n\nWayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles. He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United. At club level, he has won every honour available in English, European and Continental football, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup. Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the", "id": "20357111" }, { "contents": "Mark Rooney\n\n\nMark Rooney (born 13 December 1983) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker. He is the elder brother of Adam Rooney. Rooney began his senior career at Dublin City before joining UCD in 2003 where he broke into the Student's first team. Rooney only stayed at Belfield Park for one season before joining his former manager at UCD, Paul Doolin at Drogheda United in 2004. Despite a difficult season for him personally, only scoring one league goal in 22 appearances, Rooney was part of the Drogheda United", "id": "21841504" }, { "contents": "Bobby Rooney\n\n\nRobert Rooney (8 July 1938 – 9 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who made 47 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City. He played as a winger. Rooney was born in Cowie, Stirling, and began his football career with Clydebank Juniors in his native Scotland before joining English Second Division club Sheffield United in 1958. He played occasionally in his first two seasons with the club, but not thereafter. In the 1962–63 season, he was registered with three clubs:", "id": "776620" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Gabriel\n\n\nJames Gabriel (born 10 October 1940) is a Scottish former football midfielder, who earned two caps with the Scotland national football team. Chiefly associated with English club Everton, Gabriel played extensively in Scotland and England before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach in both England and the USA, where he lives today. Jimmy Gabriel first came to the attention of Dundee when he played at right-half for the Scotland under-15 schoolboys in an international at Dens Park.", "id": "5028700" }, { "contents": "Con Boutsianis\n\n\nConstantinos \"Con\" Boutsianis (born 27 December 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former international, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Boutsianis began his career with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in 1989, and soon established himself as a goalscoring midfielder. He left South at the end of the 1994/95 season to join Heidelberg United for the 1996 Victorian Premier League season, before joining Collingwood Warriors for their one and only season in the NSL. Following the club's demise at", "id": "4070407" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\nSteven Laurie (born 30 October 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who played as a defender. He played in England with West Ham United's youth academy and Peterborough United, before returning to Australia to play for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League and Sydney FC in the A-League. He is currently the head manager of Geelong SC. Steve Laurie started his professional youth career with the Victorian Institute of Sport, spending a year at the academy in 1997", "id": "21322154" }, { "contents": "David Jones (footballer, born 1955)\n\n\nDavid Jones (born 1 April 1955 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian former soccer player and coach. Jones played his junior soccer for Kwinana United before graduating to the senior team in 1970. He remained with the club until the end of the 1975 season, where he won the Rothmans Gold Medal award for the season's fairest and best player. In 1976 Jones played for East Fremantle Tricolore. In the first year of the National Soccer League in 1977 he played for West Adelaide and was part of the club", "id": "12543554" }, { "contents": "Luke Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nLuke William Rooney (born 28 December 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and is a free agent after leaving his most recent club, Welling United. Born in Bermondsey, London, Rooney joined Gillingham as an apprentice professional in 2007. He forced his way into the first team squad in early December 2008 and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup second round replay at Stockport County. In early 2009 he was loaned out to Lewes of the Conference National, where he made six appearances. He turned", "id": "6731049" }, { "contents": "Preston Lions FC\n\n\nthe Year Bill Fleming Medal – Media voted VPL Player of the Year Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year Victorian Premier League Under 21 Player of the Year Jimmy Rooney Medal – VPL Grand Final Man of the Match Weinstein Medal Junior Player of the Year Australian Representatives – Senior Level National Representatives – Youth Team Victorian State Representatives – Senior Level ● Preston Makedonia Inaugural season *Victorian Provisional League* 1959 - 4th - 10 Teams in League. ● Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2", "id": "19353574" }, { "contents": "Bob Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nRobert “Bob” Rooney was a U.S. soccer center forward who spent his playing career in the St. Louis leagues. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957. Rooney grew up in the Dogtown area of St. Louis, attending St. James Grade School and St. Louis University High School. As a youth, he played both football and baseball in addition to soccer spending five seasons with a St. Louis Cardinals farm team. Even while playing in the local St. Louis soccer leagues, Rooney earned a living as a", "id": "2939914" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\n, before moving to England, joining the youth academy of West Ham United F.C. in 1998. Laurie remained with the Hammers academy until 2002, then moving to Peterborough United F.C.. He returned to Australia after being lured back by former Rangers F.C. player and then coach Stuart Munro to play for National Soccer League powerhouse South Melbourne FC in the last season of the NSL. Laurie was one of the first six signings for the newly formed Hyundai A-League club Sydney FC, although later he was released from his contract via mutual", "id": "21322155" }, { "contents": "William McLachlan (footballer)\n\n\nWilliam McLachlan (born 19 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Airdrie United and for Australian club Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. McLachlan began his career with Rangers and appeared for the Scotland U-16 team in a Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland in October 2004. In December 2008, he joined Airdrie United on loan. He made his debut against St Johnstone on 20 December.", "id": "18351658" }, { "contents": "Joe Montemurro\n\n\nJoseph Adrian Montemurro (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian former soccer player, currently the manager of Arsenal Women. Montemurro played as a midfielder during his short professional career, mainly in Italy, before returning to Australia to play in the Victorian state leagues. He began coaching in youth football for various Victorian clubs, before his first managerial role with Sunshine George Cross, and then later, Coburg United. His first job abroad came in 2013, spending four months as the inaugural manager of Papa New Guinean side Port Moresby", "id": "14957118" }, { "contents": "Tommy Rooney\n\n\nTommy Rooney (born 30 December 1984) is an English footballer who played for League Two club Macclesfield Town during the 2004–05 season as a striker and later played non-league football for Vauxhall Motors. Tommy, who is the cousin of Wayne, John and Graeme Rooney, began his career at Tranmere Rovers, where he played in the youth and reserve sides but did not break into the first-team. He joined League Two club Macclesfield Town in May 2004 on a one-year contract and made two league and cup", "id": "9458597" }, { "contents": "Steven Weir\n\n\nSteven Weir (born 3 October 1988) is a Scottish Junior footballer who plays as a striker for West of Scotland Super League Premier Division club Arthurlie. Born in Harthill, Scotland, he started his career with Livingston, where he also spent a spell on loan at Cowdenbeath. He joined Arbroath before moving to Australia where he played for North Eastern Soccer League side, Shepparton South. He scored 28 goals in 12 games in his first season with the club, and played his first match for the team four hours after arriving", "id": "18510479" }, { "contents": "Jimmy McDonnell\n\n\nJames McDonnell (1927 – 30 September 2017) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team spanned three decades from 1948 until 1960. Born in Darver, County Louth, McDonnell first played competitive Gaelic football with the Darver Volunteers club. He won a junior league medal in 1952 before winning a county junior championship medal in 1956. From 1961 onward McDonnell played with the newly-formed St. Joseph's club. McDonnell made his debut with the Louth senior team during", "id": "4115167" }, { "contents": "Sean Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nSean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the", "id": "16687041" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)\n\n\nJames E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee, and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock. Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928. In a five-and-a-half-year career with", "id": "9343677" }, { "contents": "Dylan Murnane\n\n\nDylan Murnane (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a left back for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. In 2012, Murnane was a member of the Port Melbourne SC side that won promotion to the Victorian Premier League and reached the final of the State Knockout Cup, before he was recruited by the Melbourne Victory Youth team. After initially joining the club as member of the youth team in late 2012, Murnane made his professional debut with home town giants Melbourne Victory against Sydney", "id": "12515687" }, { "contents": "Jim Tansey\n\n\nJim Tansey (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian former association football player. The son of Everton footballer Jimmy Tansey, Tansey was born in Liverpool, England in 1953. He emigrated to Australia in 1974. Tansey began his senior playing career for South Liverpool F.C.. After moving to Australia, he played for Slavia Melbourne in the Victorian State League. With the start of the National Soccer League (NSL), Tansey moved to Fitzroy United Alexander. He later played for NSL club Footscray JUST. Between 1975 and 1981", "id": "10339389" }, { "contents": "Ray McKinnon (footballer)\n\n\nRaymond McKinnon (born 5 August 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the manager of Falkirk. As a player, McKinnon was a midfielder whose clubs included Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Aberdeen, Livingston, Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also represented the Scotland under-21 team. McKinnon began his managerial career in junior football with Lochee United before managing senior clubs Brechin City, Raith Rovers, Dundee United, Morton and left just three months later for Falkirk. McKinnon was born in Dundee on 5 August", "id": "4406705" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Douglas (Canadian soccer)\n\n\nJimmy Douglas (born October 6, 1948 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish-Canadian soccer midfielder and head coach. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League and earned fourteen caps for the Canadian national soccer team. Born in Scotland, Douglas moved to Canada in 1964 when he was sixteen. He almost immediately began playing for St. Catharines Heidelberg in the National Soccer League and by 1970 was in the first team. In 1974, he played in the North American Soccer League with the Toronto Metros before returning", "id": "12329068" }, { "contents": "Gary Hasler\n\n\nGary Hasler (born 5 May 1970) is an Australian former association football player. he played in the National Soccer League for Sunshine George Cross and South Melbourne. In international football, he made two appearances for Australia and also represented the country at the 1992 Olympics. Hasler joined Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League in 1989. In 1992, he joined South Melbourne. After two seasons he moved to Heidelberg in the Victorian Premier League. Hasler was a member of the Australian squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In", "id": "18353802" }, { "contents": "Sebastian Ryall\n\n\nSebastian \"Seb\" Ryall (born 18 July 1989) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender, most recently for Sydney FC. Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Football Club in Sydney. Ryall later played for the AIS in the Victorian Premier League before signing for Melbourne Victory on a 2-year contract in August 2007. He made his first appearance for the club in their round 3 match against Adelaide United and played in their Grand Final win over Adelaide in March 2009. In April 2009", "id": "1237851" }, { "contents": "Cameron Watson (footballer)\n\n\nCameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side Moreland Zebras FC. Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move", "id": "15681415" }, { "contents": "Jack Ross (footballer, born 1976)\n\n\nJohn James Ross (born 5 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the manager of English League One club Sunderland. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He", "id": "9812399" }, { "contents": "Jesse Daley\n\n\nJesse Daley (born 16 October 1997) is an Australian soccer player who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship. Daley spent time at Queensland Academy of Sport, before playing with the youth team at Brisbane Roar, before spending time with Melbourne Victory following his release from the club, before again playing with Brisbane Roar. Daley joined National Premier Leagues Victoria side South Melbourne FC ahead of their 2017 season. He left the club in January 2018, joining National Premier League side Lions FC. Following a trial, Daley", "id": "13637473" }, { "contents": "Steven Pace\n\n\nSteven Pace (born 6 March 1983) is an Australian footballer who plays for Heidelberg United FC. Earlier in his career, Pace played for various Victorian teams, including South Melbourne, Essendon Royals and the Preston Lions. He has been described as a \"utility\" player, having played as a midfielder as well as a central defender. He played in the latter position for the Preston Lions in their successful 2007 campaign, when they won the Victorian Premier League Championship. When the Melbourne Victory signed Pace in October 2007,", "id": "2478195" }, { "contents": "Evans Rusike\n\n\nEvans Rusike (born 13 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for Premier Soccer League side Supersport United in South Africa. He also plays for the Zimbabwe national team. Rusike began his career in Zimbabwe with Kiglon in 2010, before moving to Zimbabwe Saints in 2012. Three years later, in 2015, he left his homeland for the first time as he agreed to join South African Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United. His league debut came on 22 August against Ajax Cape Town. At the end", "id": "8298403" }, { "contents": "Tarek Elrich\n\n\nTarek Elrich (born 1 January 1987) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a right back and midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League. Elrich was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his senior career with Sydney Olympic, before moving to Newcastle Jets in 2006. In 2012, he moved to new club Western Sydney Wanderers before moving again to Adelaide United one season later. Tarek played youth football for Australia, before being called up to the Lebanon national team in 2012.", "id": "21014072" }, { "contents": "Dominic Smith (footballer)\n\n\nDominic Rooney Smith (born 22 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Northern Premier League North Division side Droylsden. He began his career with Crewe Alexandra, where he progressed through the club's Academy, but failed to make a first team appearance. He joined Colchester United in 2014, where he made his Football League debut in September 2014. He had a brief loan spell at A.F.C. Hornchurch, before leaving Colchester after the expiry of his one-year deal. He has since represented numerous Northern", "id": "18972781" }, { "contents": "Dave Harding\n\n\nDavid Harding (born 14 August 1946) is a former football (soccer) midfielder. He played for Wrexham from 1965 to 1966, then South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, before moving to Australia where he played for Pan Hellenic, Western Suburbs, Blacktown City and APIA until 1981. In this time he won NSW representative honours in 1974 against Bristol Rovers. Harding was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany and represented Australia 45 times between 1974 and 1977 scoring 11 times. More recently he", "id": "3031486" }, { "contents": "George Howard (footballer)\n\n\nGeorge Howard (born 8 October 1996) is an English-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker. George Howard moved to Australia with his family aged 1 or 15 from England where he had participated in the Sheffield United Academy, and was playing senior football for then fourth tier Victorian State League Division 1 side Eastern Lions by age 16. Howard joined National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 club Box Hill United in 2014, and was recruited to the Melbourne Victory Youth squad by Darren Davies in 2015. He trialled with the", "id": "12301976" }, { "contents": "George Slifkas\n\n\nGeorge Slifkas (born 18 October 1969) is an Australian former association football player. Slifkas played for Preston Makedonia, Heidelberg United and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s he dropped down to the Victorian Premier League where he played for the Bulleen Lions, the Thomastown Zebras and the Melbourne Raiders. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Slifkas played four matches as Australia placed fourth. In 1993 Slifkas made his first and only international appearance for Australia as a substitute in a match against", "id": "18566415" }, { "contents": "Luciano Trani\n\n\nLuciano Trani (born 10 August 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former football (soccer) player who was most recently the manager of National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side North Geelong Warriors FC. Trani began coaching at the Victorian Premier League and National Soccer League levels with the Fawkner Blues, Essendon Royals, Whittlesea Stallions, Brisbane Strikers and the Melbourne Knights. He then took up roles as a coaching instructor for Football Federation Victoria and Head Coach of Pascoe Vale FC, before joining Wellington Phoenix. He then transferred to", "id": "3270514" }, { "contents": "Touk Miller\n\n\n. Such was his talent, he was selected to represent the under 15 Victorian state cricket team at the national championships in March 2011 and made his first XI debut for the North Melbourne Cricket Club at the Junction Oval in December 2011 before electing to focus on football the following year. Miller played all of his junior years with the Maribyrnong Park Lions in the Essendon District Football League and made his senior debut for the club in 2011 at the age of 15. He played junior football for both St Kevin's College in the", "id": "17982973" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Bullard\n\n\nJames Richard Bullard (born 23 October 1978) is an English former footballer, coach and television presenter. He is currently co-host of the Saturday morning Sky TV show Soccer AM. As a player he was a midfielder and played youth football at West Ham United before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet in 1998. Two seasons at Peterborough United was followed by a spell at Wigan Athletic where he scored ten goals in 145 league appearances, helping them to their first promotion to the Premier League. Bullard was known for being a", "id": "8289895" }, { "contents": "Kieran Dover\n\n\nKieran Dover is an Australian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Green Gully in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. From Stockton-on-Tees, Dover started his career at the youth team of Sunderland before moving to Australia at the age of twelve, where he joined the youth ranks at Berwick City. He then eventually went on to join Dandenong Thunder of the NPL Victoria where he was named Winning Edge Presentations Rising Star of the Month in August. He also played for the Melbourne Victory youth sides in", "id": "8333803" }, { "contents": "Andrew Robertson\n\n\nAndrew Robertson (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. Robertson began his senior career with Queen's Park in 2012 before joining Dundee United a year later. His form in his first season as a professional led to him being named SPFA Young Player of the Year and also making his international debut. He joined Hull City in July 2014 for a fee of £2.85 million, before joining Liverpool in July 2017 for an", "id": "17961904" }, { "contents": "Steve Hayward\n\n\nSteve Hayward (born 8 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder in a sixteen-year career spanning from 1988 to 2004. Born in Pelsall near Walsall, Hayward began his career with Derby County and made his League debut in 1990, but found first-team opportunities limited. He joined Carlisle United in 1994 and won two promotions from Division Three and the 1997 Football League Trophy Final during his time at the club before moving to Fulham in 1997. He played a role in Fulham", "id": "6088205" }, { "contents": "Vince Lia\n\n\nVince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Adelaide United in the A-League. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior debut with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League. He spent one season with Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues in 2005 before joining Melbourne Victory in 2005 to play in the newly-formed A-League. Lia next spent a decade at Wellington Phoenix, making over 200 appearances for the club in all competitions. He", "id": "5478442" }, { "contents": "Peter Stone (footballer)\n\n\nPeter Stone (born 30 September 1954) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Stone played his junior football for Adamstown before playing for Western Suburbs in the New South Wales state league (1973–1976) and the National Soccer League (1977). In 1978, he moved to APIA Leichhardt, where he played three NSL seasons. Stone moved to St. George in 1980 where he played two seasons. Stone made his international debut for Australia in 1976 against Hong Kong. He also played over in England for Tottenham Hotspur", "id": "5877228" }, { "contents": "Sean Cranney\n\n\nSean Cranney (born 2 October 1973) is an Australian former association football player. Cranney played for Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club before joining Brisbane United in the Queensland state league in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was signed to National Soccer League team Brisbane Strikers. At the Strikers he played five seasons before moving to Northern Spirit for the 1990/2000 season. Cranney played for Australia at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Cranney made his full international debut in November 1996 for Australia in an OFC Nations Cup match against New", "id": "18125994" }, { "contents": "Derek Spalding\n\n\nDerek Spalding (born 20 December 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former soccer player, who played as a defender. Spalding played for Hibernian in the Scottish Football League until he emigrated to the United States in 1977. He then played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least two in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the US national team, in 1982. Growing up in Scotland, Spalding signed with First Division club Hibernian as a youth player. He worked his way", "id": "11180604" }, { "contents": "Ross Barkley\n\n\n23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 but did not appear in any of England's matches. Managers and teammates have compared his style of play to those of Michael Ballack, Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Barkley was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. He joined Everton as an 11-year-old and played for the club's youth teams. He was named as a substitute in a first team league match in early 2010–11, and was expected to make his Premier League debut before his leg was broken in one place after a collision with", "id": "7578236" }, { "contents": "Erick Chipeta\n\n\nErick Chipeta (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Zimbabwe national team. Chipeta started his career in Zimbabwe with Hwange Colliery, where he remained for two years before leaving his homeland for South Africa for the first time. 2014 saw Chipeta join newly promoted Premier Soccer League side Chippa United. He made his debut for Chippa in a 1–1 draw at home to Mamelodi Sundowns on 22 October. In total he made 18 appearances and scored 1 goal in his first season", "id": "6134269" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\nShaun Antony Rooney (born 26 July 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Rooney has previously played for Queen's Park, Dunfermline Athletic, York City and Queen of the South. Rooney was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. Rooney started his career playing youth football with Bellshill Boys Club and Dundee United, before signing with Scottish League Two club Queen's Park in July 2013. Rooney's first-team debut came shortly after signing for the club, in", "id": "16210765" }, { "contents": "Robert Trajkovski\n\n\nRobert Trajkovski (born 24 July 1972) is an Australian former footballer. Trajkovski began his senior career with Altona before moving to National Soccer League team Melbourne City. After a season with Melbourne City Trajkovski transferred to Sydney United. He played two season for United between 1995 and 1997. In the 1997/98 season Trajkovski played for Carlton, playing 22 matches. Trajkovski moved to Perth Glory for the 1998/99 season. After playing 73 matches over three seasons for the Glory he moved to Northern Spirit where he saw out his top flight career", "id": "5112927" }, { "contents": "Sasa Macura\n\n\nSasa Macura is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Manly United in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Macura played youth football for Northern Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Bonnyrigg White Eagles before moving to Hungary. There, he made his professional debut for MTK Budapest as well as playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II for MTK's reserve team and Szigetszentmiklósi. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for Blacktown City. He moved to Manly United in 2017. Macura was born in", "id": "14725944" }, { "contents": "Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)\n\n\nPhilip Anthony Jones (born 21 February 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Manchester United and the English national team. Before joining Manchester United, Jones played for Blackburn Rovers at both youth and senior levels. Although primarily a centre-back, he has also been used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Jones has represented England at various levels and is currently a member of the England senior squad. He played for the under-19 team in 2009 before making his debut for the under-21 team in 2010", "id": "13966664" }, { "contents": "Paul Bilokapic\n\n\nPaul Bilokapic (born 8 August 1976) is an Australian former soccer player. He played as a midfielder. After playing youth football for Yaralla, he moved to Sydney Croatia (later Sydney United) where he played until the end of the 1997–98 National Soccer League season. After two seasons with Northern Spirit FC, he returned to Sydney United, where he played until the end of the 2002–03 National Soccer League season. Bilokapic made his full international debut for Australia in February 1998 in a friendly match against Chile. He made", "id": "10116884" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875)\n\n\nJames Jackson (15 September 1875 – after 1914) was a footballer who played as a full back or at wing half. Jackson's family emigrated from Scotland to Australia where he was raised and where he began his senior football career while still in his early teens. He returned to Scotland in 1893, appearing in Junior football and briefly for Rangers before moving to England to join Newcastle United. Two years later he signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he spent six seasons, captaining the club in its inaugural season in the Football League", "id": "19786821" }, { "contents": "David Carney\n\n\nDavid Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC. Born in Sydney, he began his playing career with the New South Wales Institute of Sport before moving to England to join Everton. Having failed to break into the Everton first team he then moved to Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical in Scotland before returning to his native Australia. After a successful spell with Sydney FC, Carney then returned to England, signing with Sheffield United before", "id": "3576647" }, { "contents": "John Pritchard (footballer)\n\n\nJohn Vincent Pritchard (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Ashton United. Pritchard was in his youth a trainee by Manchester United, before joined in April 2012 to Oldham Athletic. He made his debut for Oldham Athletic on 21 December 2013 in a 2–0 defeat to Colchester United at Boundary Park, he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Adam Rooney. After two seasons was released and joined in August 2014 to FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League", "id": "278653" }, { "contents": "APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC\n\n\nhistory of the club when skipper Jimmy Rooney and centreforward Peter Ollerton, who scored five goals, won 9–1 against Auburn in front of a crowd of 5210 at Wentworth Park, the highest finals result ever. Rooney and Ollerton were also in the team that represented Australia a few months later in its first World Cup participation in Germany. In 1979 APIA was given access to the National Soccer League, the top tier of Australian soccer since 1977. In 1987 APIA won the national championship, six points ahead of the Preston Makedonia Soccer", "id": "17492652" }, { "contents": "Ante Moric\n\n\nAnte Tomislav Moric (born 19 April 1974) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Leagues Victoria side Dandenong City SC. Moric played at club level in Australia and Croatia for St. George, AIS, Sydney United, Zadar, Canberra Cosmos, Sydney Olympic, Fraser Park, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Rockdale City Suns. He also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After a stint with the youth side of National Premier Leagues NSW 2 side St George", "id": "5169013" }, { "contents": "John May (Australian footballer)\n\n\nJohn May (born 15 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). May was recruited to play for Essendon's under-19s from West Coburg in the Essendon District Football League. In 1970, his second season with the under-19s, he was named captain and also played several matches in the reserves before making his senior VFL debut late in the season. He kicked one goal from his three games playing as a midfielder and stayed with Essendon for another year, but", "id": "16685305" }, { "contents": "Andrew Fox (footballer)\n\n\nAndrew Thomas Philip Fox (born 15 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fox began his playing career during his time at university, playing football in the USA for 4 years with St. Edward's University Soccer Team. After a short spell at Texan club Midland/Odessa Sockers, Fox moved back to England in July 2015, where he joined League One side Peterborough United on a free transfer. He joined National League side Kidderminster Harriers on loan", "id": "3891979" }, { "contents": "Petar Franjic\n\n\nPetar Franjic (born 7 April 1992) is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Avondale FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Franjic joined the Melbourne Knights FC under 21 squad in 2009 after spending a number of years with the Victorian Institute of Sport. That year, he made his breakthrough into senior football, making six appearances for the first team in the Victorian Premier League in the first half of the season. He was then picked up by A-League side Melbourne Victory FC, initially with the youth team.", "id": "1076969" }, { "contents": "Jacob Burns (soccer)\n\n\nJacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory. Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay. His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October", "id": "5439205" }, { "contents": "Zander Diamond\n\n\nAlexander Kevin \"Zander\" Diamond (born 12 March 1985) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He began his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen, before moving to Oldham Athletic in 2011; he later played for Burton Albion, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town in England. He won eleven caps for Scotland under-21s. Raised in the west of Scotland in Dumbarton, Alexandria-born Diamond graduated from the youth team at Aberdeen in his first full season and made his League debut against Dundee", "id": "20263817" }, { "contents": "Hilton Kotzur\n\n\nHilton Kotzur (born 20 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kotzur represented New South Wales as a junior, but was also a member of the Victorian team which won the 1981 Teal Cup, earning All-Australian honours He joined the Swans when they were still based in Melbourne and played both Under-19s and reserves football for the club, before he fractured two vertebrae in 1982. The back injury stalled his career and it was not until", "id": "20658877" }, { "contents": "Christopher Forrester\n\n\nChristopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland Premier Division. He has also previously played for Bohemians, Peterborough United, Aberdeen and the Republic of Ireland under-21's. In March 2016 he was called up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad but has yet to be capped. Forrester started his schoolboy career with his local team, Smithfield, where he stayed for three seasons. He played for Bohemians for three seasons before", "id": "3737210" }, { "contents": "James Meyer (footballer)\n\n\nJames Meyer (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Queensland club Brisbane City. Born in Sydney, Meyer started his youth career with Brisbane City FC in 2005. The following year Meyer went to Europe and signed on as a youth player for Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and then Hertha BSC of Germany the next year. He then returned to Australia in 2008 to play for Olympic FC of the Queensland State League before joining Eastern Suburbs F.C. of the Brisbane Premier League", "id": "21300581" }, { "contents": "Billy Ions\n\n\nRooney and Spanish forward Fernando Torres to whom he compared himself to. Ions first started playing football in the youth team of the local village of Valle de San Lorenzo in Tenerife, named \"Constanza\". Years later he started to play in the football school of Juan Miguel. At the age of 15, Ions joined the youth setup at CD Tenerife. In February 2010, he returned to England to join Newcastle United, the club he supported as a child. He made his Under-18's debut in a home match against", "id": "2185330" }, { "contents": "Jason Geria\n\n\nJason Kato Geria (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for JEF United Chiba in the J2 League and for the Australia national team. Born in Canberra, Geria played youth football with the Australian Institute of Sport and Brisbane Roar youth before joining Melbourne Victory in 2012, where he made his professional debut and played for five years. Geria was born in Canberra to Ugandan parents. Geria's first youth club was Weston Creek SC in Canberra. He also played in", "id": "13593993" }, { "contents": "Vincent Bezecourt\n\n\nVincent Bezecourt (born 10 June 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Bezecourt began his football career in France with Jeunesse Villenavaise and made his debut with the first team during the 2012 season in Championnat de France amateur. In two season with the first team, he appeared in 52 league matches scoring 9 goals. In 2014, he went to the United States to play College soccer for St. Francis Brooklyn under head coach Tom Giovatto. In his first", "id": "7942392" }, { "contents": "Oliver Puflett\n\n\nOliver Puflett (born 26 July 1999) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a striker for S.League club Home United. Puflett started his career with the Western Sydney Wanderers FC, playing for its Under-21 team, scoring 5 goals in 11 games over 2 years. He also won the Y-League title in the 2017-18 season with them. He played for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC Under-21 squad before signing his first professional contract and joining Singapore Premier League side Home United FC in March 2019. He then made", "id": "9045653" }, { "contents": "Massimo Luongo\n\n\nMassimo Corey Luongo ( ; born 25 September 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Queens Park Rangers and the Australian national team. Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Queens Park Rangers in 2015. Luongo has played for the Australia", "id": "15251787" }, { "contents": "Graham Moss\n\n\nGraham Moss (born 14 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who was highly successful in both the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a Brownlow Medal-winning ruckman and played 343 senior games in the WAFL and VFL. Moss debuted for Claremont Football Club in the WAFL in 1969. In 1970, he made his debut for the Western Australian state team. Essendon attempted to lure him to Melbourne several times, and finally succeeded before the", "id": "15698753" }, { "contents": "Luke Power\n\n\nLuke Power (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). A member of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premiership winning teams, he played 282 games for the Lions before moving to Greater Western Sydney where he played his final season. He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Giants. Power debuted for the Lions as an 18-year-old in 1998, and he has", "id": "12553548" }, { "contents": "Robert Ironside (footballer)\n\n\nRobert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His club career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Sydney Olympic in the Australian National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to Newcastle Breakers He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle Ironside made his All White debut in a 1-1", "id": "19673589" }, { "contents": "James Jeggo\n\n\nJames Alexander Jeggo ( ; born 12 February 1992) is an Austrian-born Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a central midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and the Australian national team. Born in Vienna, Austria, Jeggo moved to Australia as a child, where he started his footballing career in youth football with Green Gully and at the Victorian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Melbourne Victory. Jeggo was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Australia as a child, growing", "id": "5614644" }, { "contents": "Jason Trifiro\n\n\nJason Trifiro (born 3 June 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Nunawading City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. Trifiro started his career in the semi-professional lower leagues in Australia, playing in New South Wales for National Premier Leagues NSW clubs Marconi Stallions, APIA Leichhardt and the South Coast Wolves. In 2011, he moved to Victoria where he played the 2011 Victorian Premier League with Northcote alongside his brother, before they both moved to ex-NSL heavyweight South Melbourne in the National", "id": "7283672" }, { "contents": "Stephen Glass (footballer)\n\n\nStephen Glass (born 23 May 1976) is a former Scottish professional footballer who is the current head coach of Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship. A midfielder, Glass started his career at Aberdeen, with whom he won the 1995 Scottish League Cup. In 1998, he moved to England, transferring to Newcastle United of the Premier League. Shortly after joining Newcastle, Glass made an appearance for the Scotland national football team. He joined Watford in the First Division in 2001, before returning to Scotland in 2003 with Hibernian", "id": "19685891" }, { "contents": "Stephen O'Donnell (footballer, born 1983)\n\n\nStephen James O'Donnell (born 10 July 1983) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career with Dundee United, making his debut in 2002. He spent time on loan with Ross County before leaving Dundee United in 2005 to play briefly in England with Boston United. Returning to Scottish football, O'Donnell had spells with Clyde and St Mirren before joining Dundee in 2010, where he later became club captain. He rejoined Clyde in 2014 and left the club in 2015. He was a Scotland under-20 international", "id": "10873501" }, { "contents": "Brian Robinson (soccer)\n\n\nBrian Robinson (born 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He started playing at the age of ten with the Evening Optimist Club in his home town and later starred in the Victoria High School team that reached the B.C. High School final in 1966. At 17 he was playing for Vic West in the Victoria City League where he played for two years before joining Victoria United in the Pacific Coast League. By 1970 he was playing in the Western Canada Soccer League", "id": "11330905" }, { "contents": "Daniel McBreen\n\n\nDaniel James McBreen (born 23 April 1977) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW club Edgeworth, and is a coach with Newcastle Jets U15. Born in England, McBreen moved to Australia with his family when he was six weeks old and started his career in local football with Toronto Awaba Stags and Edgeworth Eagles. He earned a professional contract with National Soccer League club Newcastle United in 2000, where he played for two seasons before joining Universitatea Craiova of the Romanian Divizia A.", "id": "9649312" }, { "contents": "Tomislav Uskok\n\n\nTomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney United in the National Premier Leagues. Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club Melbourne Knights. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined Victorian State League Division 1 side St Albans Saints for the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014", "id": "8367993" }, { "contents": "Austin Berry (soccer)\n\n\nthe newly-formed club FC Cincinnati in the lower division United Soccer League. He served as FC Cincinnati's team captain for two seasons before retiring from his playing career and accepting a position as the club's strength and conditioning coach. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended the Summit Country Day School for high school where he played four fall seasons of soccer. With a 14–1–1 record during his senior year, Berry contributed 10 goals, 6 assists, and led his team to the Regional finals. He earned first team", "id": "19581628" }, { "contents": "Gary Smith (footballer, born 1968)\n\n\nGary Neil Smith (born 3 December 1968) is an English former footballer. He is currently Head Coach & Technical Director of Nashville SC in the United Soccer League, the second tier in the US soccer pyramid. Smith's playing career began at Fulham, progressing through the youth team before making one first-team appearance for the club. After a brief spell with Colchester United, Smith joined non-league side Enfield in 1989. His most successful spell during his playing days was at Wycombe Wanderers, spending two seasons with", "id": "686418" }, { "contents": "Lee Scroggins\n\n\nLeepaul Scroggins (born 23 October 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for South Shields. Scroggins began his career with Darlington, but moved on to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Blyth Spartans in 2001 without having played for Darlington's first team. He spent just over a year with Spartans, before joining Whitley Bay of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. Scroggins then moved to the United States, where he had a successful college soccer career at Lynn University, graduating in Sports Recreation", "id": "8969031" }, { "contents": "Brad Smith (footballer, born 1948)\n\n\nBrad R. Smith (born 3 December 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also had a long career in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) where he played for East Perth and coached East Fremantle. Smith was a late comer to VFL football as he had spent eight years at East Perth before joining North Melbourne. He was a member of East Perth's 1972 and 1978 premiership teams and a back pocket player in", "id": "8985200" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Dunne (footballer, born 1997)\n\n\nJames Gerard Dunne (born 19 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Burnley. Dunne played locally in Ireland before joining the youth set-up at Manchester United in 2007. After transferring to Burnley in 2016, he spent time on loan at Barrow (where he made his senior debut in August 2017) and Accrington Stanley (where he made his Football League debut in January 2018). Born in Dundalk Dunne began his career with St Kevin's Boys Club before joining the Manchester", "id": "18334762" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\na Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Ayr United at Hampden Park. During the 2013–14 season, Rooney made 11 appearances for Queen's Park. His breakthrough season came in 2014–15, when he played in 30 matches, scoring his first goal on 15 November 2014 with a header against Elgin City in a 4–1 win. Rooney's impressive performances for Queen's Park saw him awarded the club's Young Player of the Year and also being named in the PFA Scotland Scottish League Two Team of the Year. The start of 2015–16 saw Rooney", "id": "16210766" }, { "contents": "Jonas Salley\n\n\nGyawe Jonas Salley (born 16 March 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a former Ivorian-Australian footballer, who last played for Hohhot Zhongyou in China League One. He is currently an assistant coach for Qingdao Red Lions. Salley moved to Australia to escape from the civil and government problems of his home country in 2006. He first played at Mill Park Soccer Club, where his outstanding performances were noticed within a very short time. He was eventually signed up to play with Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne. He was then", "id": "20136861" }, { "contents": "Alan Green (soccer)\n\n\nAlan Green (born 1 January 1954) is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Green, a native of Worcester, England, began his professional career with Coventry City. He joined the club as a striker in 1970, but did not make his first team debut until April 22, 1972, which was", "id": "15514446" }, { "contents": "Tommy Kelly (footballer)\n\n\nTommy Kelly was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A dynamic midfielder, he is quite simply a Bohemian F.C. legend, his career at Dalymount Park spanning 3 different decades. He appeared in a club record 19 games in European competition and won 2 League of Ireland titles. He joined Bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the \"B\" team. He made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over Drogheda on April 10, 1966.", "id": "14451234" }, { "contents": "Kevin Egan\n\n\nKevin Egan (born 10 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and played in Essendon's 1965 premiership team. Egan was used mostly as a rover and wingman. After leaving Essendon Egan spent some time at both South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide and the Victorian", "id": "1551420" }, { "contents": "Kenny Hill (association footballer)\n\n\nKenneth George Hill (born 7 March 1953) is an English former association football defender who played professionally in England and the North American Soccer League. In 1971, he joined Gillingham, playing 125 league matches before leaving the team for the United States in 1974. That year, he signed with the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He also played for Maidstone United, where he began his career, Lincoln City, with whom he made a single appearance in", "id": "347314" }, { "contents": "Ray Farningham\n\n\nRay Farningham (born 10 April 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder for a handful of Scottish clubs. He previously managed Forfar Athletic, Montrose and was the assistant manager of Dundee. Ray is now assistant manager at junior side Lochee United F.C. Farningham trained as a youth with Dundee United before beginning his senior career with Forfar Athletic, making his debut towards the end of the 1970s. In his seven years at Station Park, Farningham was part of the sides which won the 1983–84 Scottish Second", "id": "3703221" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Kirk\n\n\nJames Kirk (born 12 November 1925) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Bury, Colchester United, Torquay United and Aldershot. Born in Tarbolton, Kirk began his career in Scotland with St Mirren, where he made 86 league appearances for the club, before moving to England to play for Bury, where he featured in 79 Football League matches. Kirk joined Colchester United in 1954 and spent one season with the club, making his", "id": "21920041" }, { "contents": "Gary Crouch\n\n\nGary Crouch (born 27 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After leaving Essendon, Crouch played for Rochester for one season before moving to Western Australia and joining Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He spent four seasons with Subiaco, playing on half back flank in the 1973 WAFL winning Grand Final team. He then moved back to Victoria to the Bendigo Football League (BFL). Crouch played one season with South Bendigo and", "id": "16878056" }, { "contents": "Neil Jenkins (footballer)\n\n\nNeil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Leatherhead F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team. Born in Carshalton, London, Jenkins joined the Essex based team Southend United in July 2002, on a one", "id": "9293884" }, { "contents": "John Reilly (footballer, born 1962)\n\n\nJohn Reilly (born 21 March 1962 in Dundee) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Reilly began his career with Dundee United, signing as a schoolboy from Strathtay Boys Club in 1979. He played for the Scotland Under 17 and Under 18 professional youth sides before making his first team debut in August 1980. He was a member of the squad that won a Premier League Winners medal in season 1982–1983 before going onto score the club's first ever goal in the European Cup the following season. Signing", "id": "10817319" } ]

[ { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nJames Rooney (born 10 December 1945 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former association football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 FIFA World Cup squad in West Germany. Rooney was a left winger who played first team football with Lochee United, Peterborough United and Montrose F.C. in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1960s. He was an instant success there with Ukrainian Essendon Lions before transferring to Sydney to join the Prague club in 1970, and later playing at APIA Leichhardt, in", "id": "318576" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\n1974 FIFA World Cup campaign, earning himself many admirers for his hard tackling and ball distribution. The Jimmy Rooney Medal, awarded from 1992 onwards to the man of the match in the Victorian Premier League Grand Final, was named in his honour. He has recently settled to a managerial role of Victorian senior team, Eastern Lions, and also hosts a junior training program. He is also currently the head coach of the first eleven soccer team at St Kevin's College, Melbourne, Australia. In his second season in charge", "id": "318578" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nthe New South Wales First Division. In 1977, with APIA not joining the newly formed National Soccer League, Rooney joined Marconi Fairfield for two seasons, before moving back to Victoria where he played with Fitzroy Alexander and Croydon City Arrows. He made his Australian debut against a England XI in 1971, going on play 57 times for his country (although he also accrued caps in \"B\" team fixtures, bringing the total to 102) in a career spanning a decade. He was Australia's first choice midfielder in the", "id": "318577" }, { "contents": "Ronald Chitiyo\n\n\nRonald Chitiyo (born 10 June 1992), commonly known as Rooney, is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national team. Chitiyo, son of former footballer Frank Chitiyo, began his senior career with Douglas Warriors. Two years later, he would leave to join Monomotapa United, during his time with Monomotapa he finished as second runner-up in the 2012 Soccer Star of the Year award. In 2013, Chitiyo had trials at South African Premier Soccer League", "id": "230018" }, { "contents": "Jim Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nJim Rooney (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional soccer player who played as both a midfielder and a striker. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Soccer League team Boca Raton FC. Jim Rooney was born in The Bronx, New York City. Rooney played college soccer at Fordham University and C.W. Post. At C.W. Post, he played with the Pioneers. He currently holds the school's record for most goals in a single season: 21. Rooney began his professional career in 1994 with", "id": "327338" }, { "contents": "Wayne Rooney\n\n\nWayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles. He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United. At club level, he has won every honour available in English, European and Continental football, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup. Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the", "id": "20357111" }, { "contents": "Mark Rooney\n\n\nMark Rooney (born 13 December 1983) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker. He is the elder brother of Adam Rooney. Rooney began his senior career at Dublin City before joining UCD in 2003 where he broke into the Student's first team. Rooney only stayed at Belfield Park for one season before joining his former manager at UCD, Paul Doolin at Drogheda United in 2004. Despite a difficult season for him personally, only scoring one league goal in 22 appearances, Rooney was part of the Drogheda United", "id": "21841504" }, { "contents": "Bobby Rooney\n\n\nRobert Rooney (8 July 1938 – 9 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who made 47 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City. He played as a winger. Rooney was born in Cowie, Stirling, and began his football career with Clydebank Juniors in his native Scotland before joining English Second Division club Sheffield United in 1958. He played occasionally in his first two seasons with the club, but not thereafter. In the 1962–63 season, he was registered with three clubs:", "id": "776620" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Gabriel\n\n\nJames Gabriel (born 10 October 1940) is a Scottish former football midfielder, who earned two caps with the Scotland national football team. Chiefly associated with English club Everton, Gabriel played extensively in Scotland and England before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach in both England and the USA, where he lives today. Jimmy Gabriel first came to the attention of Dundee when he played at right-half for the Scotland under-15 schoolboys in an international at Dens Park.", "id": "5028700" }, { "contents": "Con Boutsianis\n\n\nConstantinos \"Con\" Boutsianis (born 27 December 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former international, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Boutsianis began his career with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in 1989, and soon established himself as a goalscoring midfielder. He left South at the end of the 1994/95 season to join Heidelberg United for the 1996 Victorian Premier League season, before joining Collingwood Warriors for their one and only season in the NSL. Following the club's demise at", "id": "4070407" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\nSteven Laurie (born 30 October 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who played as a defender. He played in England with West Ham United's youth academy and Peterborough United, before returning to Australia to play for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League and Sydney FC in the A-League. He is currently the head manager of Geelong SC. Steve Laurie started his professional youth career with the Victorian Institute of Sport, spending a year at the academy in 1997", "id": "21322154" }, { "contents": "David Jones (footballer, born 1955)\n\n\nDavid Jones (born 1 April 1955 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian former soccer player and coach. Jones played his junior soccer for Kwinana United before graduating to the senior team in 1970. He remained with the club until the end of the 1975 season, where he won the Rothmans Gold Medal award for the season's fairest and best player. In 1976 Jones played for East Fremantle Tricolore. In the first year of the National Soccer League in 1977 he played for West Adelaide and was part of the club", "id": "12543554" }, { "contents": "Luke Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nLuke William Rooney (born 28 December 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and is a free agent after leaving his most recent club, Welling United. Born in Bermondsey, London, Rooney joined Gillingham as an apprentice professional in 2007. He forced his way into the first team squad in early December 2008 and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup second round replay at Stockport County. In early 2009 he was loaned out to Lewes of the Conference National, where he made six appearances. He turned", "id": "6731049" }, { "contents": "Preston Lions FC\n\n\nthe Year Bill Fleming Medal – Media voted VPL Player of the Year Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year Victorian Premier League Under 21 Player of the Year Jimmy Rooney Medal – VPL Grand Final Man of the Match Weinstein Medal Junior Player of the Year Australian Representatives – Senior Level National Representatives – Youth Team Victorian State Representatives – Senior Level ● Preston Makedonia Inaugural season *Victorian Provisional League* 1959 - 4th - 10 Teams in League. ● Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2", "id": "19353574" }, { "contents": "Bob Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nRobert “Bob” Rooney was a U.S. soccer center forward who spent his playing career in the St. Louis leagues. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957. Rooney grew up in the Dogtown area of St. Louis, attending St. James Grade School and St. Louis University High School. As a youth, he played both football and baseball in addition to soccer spending five seasons with a St. Louis Cardinals farm team. Even while playing in the local St. Louis soccer leagues, Rooney earned a living as a", "id": "2939914" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\n, before moving to England, joining the youth academy of West Ham United F.C. in 1998. Laurie remained with the Hammers academy until 2002, then moving to Peterborough United F.C.. He returned to Australia after being lured back by former Rangers F.C. player and then coach Stuart Munro to play for National Soccer League powerhouse South Melbourne FC in the last season of the NSL. Laurie was one of the first six signings for the newly formed Hyundai A-League club Sydney FC, although later he was released from his contract via mutual", "id": "21322155" }, { "contents": "William McLachlan (footballer)\n\n\nWilliam McLachlan (born 19 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Airdrie United and for Australian club Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. McLachlan began his career with Rangers and appeared for the Scotland U-16 team in a Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland in October 2004. In December 2008, he joined Airdrie United on loan. He made his debut against St Johnstone on 20 December.", "id": "18351658" }, { "contents": "Joe Montemurro\n\n\nJoseph Adrian Montemurro (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian former soccer player, currently the manager of Arsenal Women. Montemurro played as a midfielder during his short professional career, mainly in Italy, before returning to Australia to play in the Victorian state leagues. He began coaching in youth football for various Victorian clubs, before his first managerial role with Sunshine George Cross, and then later, Coburg United. His first job abroad came in 2013, spending four months as the inaugural manager of Papa New Guinean side Port Moresby", "id": "14957118" }, { "contents": "Tommy Rooney\n\n\nTommy Rooney (born 30 December 1984) is an English footballer who played for League Two club Macclesfield Town during the 2004–05 season as a striker and later played non-league football for Vauxhall Motors. Tommy, who is the cousin of Wayne, John and Graeme Rooney, began his career at Tranmere Rovers, where he played in the youth and reserve sides but did not break into the first-team. He joined League Two club Macclesfield Town in May 2004 on a one-year contract and made two league and cup", "id": "9458597" }, { "contents": "Steven Weir\n\n\nSteven Weir (born 3 October 1988) is a Scottish Junior footballer who plays as a striker for West of Scotland Super League Premier Division club Arthurlie. Born in Harthill, Scotland, he started his career with Livingston, where he also spent a spell on loan at Cowdenbeath. He joined Arbroath before moving to Australia where he played for North Eastern Soccer League side, Shepparton South. He scored 28 goals in 12 games in his first season with the club, and played his first match for the team four hours after arriving", "id": "18510479" }, { "contents": "Jimmy McDonnell\n\n\nJames McDonnell (1927 – 30 September 2017) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team spanned three decades from 1948 until 1960. Born in Darver, County Louth, McDonnell first played competitive Gaelic football with the Darver Volunteers club. He won a junior league medal in 1952 before winning a county junior championship medal in 1956. From 1961 onward McDonnell played with the newly-formed St. Joseph's club. McDonnell made his debut with the Louth senior team during", "id": "4115167" }, { "contents": "Sean Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nSean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the", "id": "16687041" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)\n\n\nJames E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee, and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock. Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928. In a five-and-a-half-year career with", "id": "9343677" }, { "contents": "Dylan Murnane\n\n\nDylan Murnane (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a left back for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. In 2012, Murnane was a member of the Port Melbourne SC side that won promotion to the Victorian Premier League and reached the final of the State Knockout Cup, before he was recruited by the Melbourne Victory Youth team. After initially joining the club as member of the youth team in late 2012, Murnane made his professional debut with home town giants Melbourne Victory against Sydney", "id": "12515687" }, { "contents": "Jim Tansey\n\n\nJim Tansey (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian former association football player. The son of Everton footballer Jimmy Tansey, Tansey was born in Liverpool, England in 1953. He emigrated to Australia in 1974. Tansey began his senior playing career for South Liverpool F.C.. After moving to Australia, he played for Slavia Melbourne in the Victorian State League. With the start of the National Soccer League (NSL), Tansey moved to Fitzroy United Alexander. He later played for NSL club Footscray JUST. Between 1975 and 1981", "id": "10339389" }, { "contents": "Ray McKinnon (footballer)\n\n\nRaymond McKinnon (born 5 August 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the manager of Falkirk. As a player, McKinnon was a midfielder whose clubs included Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Aberdeen, Livingston, Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also represented the Scotland under-21 team. McKinnon began his managerial career in junior football with Lochee United before managing senior clubs Brechin City, Raith Rovers, Dundee United, Morton and left just three months later for Falkirk. McKinnon was born in Dundee on 5 August", "id": "4406705" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Douglas (Canadian soccer)\n\n\nJimmy Douglas (born October 6, 1948 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish-Canadian soccer midfielder and head coach. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League and earned fourteen caps for the Canadian national soccer team. Born in Scotland, Douglas moved to Canada in 1964 when he was sixteen. He almost immediately began playing for St. Catharines Heidelberg in the National Soccer League and by 1970 was in the first team. In 1974, he played in the North American Soccer League with the Toronto Metros before returning", "id": "12329068" }, { "contents": "Gary Hasler\n\n\nGary Hasler (born 5 May 1970) is an Australian former association football player. he played in the National Soccer League for Sunshine George Cross and South Melbourne. In international football, he made two appearances for Australia and also represented the country at the 1992 Olympics. Hasler joined Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League in 1989. In 1992, he joined South Melbourne. After two seasons he moved to Heidelberg in the Victorian Premier League. Hasler was a member of the Australian squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In", "id": "18353802" }, { "contents": "Sebastian Ryall\n\n\nSebastian \"Seb\" Ryall (born 18 July 1989) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender, most recently for Sydney FC. Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Football Club in Sydney. Ryall later played for the AIS in the Victorian Premier League before signing for Melbourne Victory on a 2-year contract in August 2007. He made his first appearance for the club in their round 3 match against Adelaide United and played in their Grand Final win over Adelaide in March 2009. In April 2009", "id": "1237851" }, { "contents": "Cameron Watson (footballer)\n\n\nCameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side Moreland Zebras FC. Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move", "id": "15681415" }, { "contents": "Jack Ross (footballer, born 1976)\n\n\nJohn James Ross (born 5 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the manager of English League One club Sunderland. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He", "id": "9812399" }, { "contents": "Jesse Daley\n\n\nJesse Daley (born 16 October 1997) is an Australian soccer player who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship. Daley spent time at Queensland Academy of Sport, before playing with the youth team at Brisbane Roar, before spending time with Melbourne Victory following his release from the club, before again playing with Brisbane Roar. Daley joined National Premier Leagues Victoria side South Melbourne FC ahead of their 2017 season. He left the club in January 2018, joining National Premier League side Lions FC. Following a trial, Daley", "id": "13637473" }, { "contents": "Steven Pace\n\n\nSteven Pace (born 6 March 1983) is an Australian footballer who plays for Heidelberg United FC. Earlier in his career, Pace played for various Victorian teams, including South Melbourne, Essendon Royals and the Preston Lions. He has been described as a \"utility\" player, having played as a midfielder as well as a central defender. He played in the latter position for the Preston Lions in their successful 2007 campaign, when they won the Victorian Premier League Championship. When the Melbourne Victory signed Pace in October 2007,", "id": "2478195" }, { "contents": "Evans Rusike\n\n\nEvans Rusike (born 13 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for Premier Soccer League side Supersport United in South Africa. He also plays for the Zimbabwe national team. Rusike began his career in Zimbabwe with Kiglon in 2010, before moving to Zimbabwe Saints in 2012. Three years later, in 2015, he left his homeland for the first time as he agreed to join South African Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United. His league debut came on 22 August against Ajax Cape Town. At the end", "id": "8298403" }, { "contents": "Tarek Elrich\n\n\nTarek Elrich (born 1 January 1987) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a right back and midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League. Elrich was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his senior career with Sydney Olympic, before moving to Newcastle Jets in 2006. In 2012, he moved to new club Western Sydney Wanderers before moving again to Adelaide United one season later. Tarek played youth football for Australia, before being called up to the Lebanon national team in 2012.", "id": "21014072" }, { "contents": "Dominic Smith (footballer)\n\n\nDominic Rooney Smith (born 22 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Northern Premier League North Division side Droylsden. He began his career with Crewe Alexandra, where he progressed through the club's Academy, but failed to make a first team appearance. He joined Colchester United in 2014, where he made his Football League debut in September 2014. He had a brief loan spell at A.F.C. Hornchurch, before leaving Colchester after the expiry of his one-year deal. He has since represented numerous Northern", "id": "18972781" }, { "contents": "Dave Harding\n\n\nDavid Harding (born 14 August 1946) is a former football (soccer) midfielder. He played for Wrexham from 1965 to 1966, then South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, before moving to Australia where he played for Pan Hellenic, Western Suburbs, Blacktown City and APIA until 1981. In this time he won NSW representative honours in 1974 against Bristol Rovers. Harding was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany and represented Australia 45 times between 1974 and 1977 scoring 11 times. More recently he", "id": "3031486" }, { "contents": "George Howard (footballer)\n\n\nGeorge Howard (born 8 October 1996) is an English-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker. George Howard moved to Australia with his family aged 1 or 15 from England where he had participated in the Sheffield United Academy, and was playing senior football for then fourth tier Victorian State League Division 1 side Eastern Lions by age 16. Howard joined National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 club Box Hill United in 2014, and was recruited to the Melbourne Victory Youth squad by Darren Davies in 2015. He trialled with the", "id": "12301976" }, { "contents": "George Slifkas\n\n\nGeorge Slifkas (born 18 October 1969) is an Australian former association football player. Slifkas played for Preston Makedonia, Heidelberg United and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s he dropped down to the Victorian Premier League where he played for the Bulleen Lions, the Thomastown Zebras and the Melbourne Raiders. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Slifkas played four matches as Australia placed fourth. In 1993 Slifkas made his first and only international appearance for Australia as a substitute in a match against", "id": "18566415" }, { "contents": "Luciano Trani\n\n\nLuciano Trani (born 10 August 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former football (soccer) player who was most recently the manager of National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side North Geelong Warriors FC. Trani began coaching at the Victorian Premier League and National Soccer League levels with the Fawkner Blues, Essendon Royals, Whittlesea Stallions, Brisbane Strikers and the Melbourne Knights. He then took up roles as a coaching instructor for Football Federation Victoria and Head Coach of Pascoe Vale FC, before joining Wellington Phoenix. He then transferred to", "id": "3270514" }, { "contents": "Touk Miller\n\n\n. Such was his talent, he was selected to represent the under 15 Victorian state cricket team at the national championships in March 2011 and made his first XI debut for the North Melbourne Cricket Club at the Junction Oval in December 2011 before electing to focus on football the following year. Miller played all of his junior years with the Maribyrnong Park Lions in the Essendon District Football League and made his senior debut for the club in 2011 at the age of 15. He played junior football for both St Kevin's College in the", "id": "17982973" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Bullard\n\n\nJames Richard Bullard (born 23 October 1978) is an English former footballer, coach and television presenter. He is currently co-host of the Saturday morning Sky TV show Soccer AM. As a player he was a midfielder and played youth football at West Ham United before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet in 1998. Two seasons at Peterborough United was followed by a spell at Wigan Athletic where he scored ten goals in 145 league appearances, helping them to their first promotion to the Premier League. Bullard was known for being a", "id": "8289895" }, { "contents": "Kieran Dover\n\n\nKieran Dover is an Australian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Green Gully in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. From Stockton-on-Tees, Dover started his career at the youth team of Sunderland before moving to Australia at the age of twelve, where he joined the youth ranks at Berwick City. He then eventually went on to join Dandenong Thunder of the NPL Victoria where he was named Winning Edge Presentations Rising Star of the Month in August. He also played for the Melbourne Victory youth sides in", "id": "8333803" }, { "contents": "Andrew Robertson\n\n\nAndrew Robertson (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. Robertson began his senior career with Queen's Park in 2012 before joining Dundee United a year later. His form in his first season as a professional led to him being named SPFA Young Player of the Year and also making his international debut. He joined Hull City in July 2014 for a fee of £2.85 million, before joining Liverpool in July 2017 for an", "id": "17961904" }, { "contents": "Steve Hayward\n\n\nSteve Hayward (born 8 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder in a sixteen-year career spanning from 1988 to 2004. Born in Pelsall near Walsall, Hayward began his career with Derby County and made his League debut in 1990, but found first-team opportunities limited. He joined Carlisle United in 1994 and won two promotions from Division Three and the 1997 Football League Trophy Final during his time at the club before moving to Fulham in 1997. He played a role in Fulham", "id": "6088205" }, { "contents": "Vince Lia\n\n\nVince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Adelaide United in the A-League. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior debut with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League. He spent one season with Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues in 2005 before joining Melbourne Victory in 2005 to play in the newly-formed A-League. Lia next spent a decade at Wellington Phoenix, making over 200 appearances for the club in all competitions. He", "id": "5478442" }, { "contents": "Peter Stone (footballer)\n\n\nPeter Stone (born 30 September 1954) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Stone played his junior football for Adamstown before playing for Western Suburbs in the New South Wales state league (1973–1976) and the National Soccer League (1977). In 1978, he moved to APIA Leichhardt, where he played three NSL seasons. Stone moved to St. George in 1980 where he played two seasons. Stone made his international debut for Australia in 1976 against Hong Kong. He also played over in England for Tottenham Hotspur", "id": "5877228" }, { "contents": "Sean Cranney\n\n\nSean Cranney (born 2 October 1973) is an Australian former association football player. Cranney played for Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club before joining Brisbane United in the Queensland state league in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was signed to National Soccer League team Brisbane Strikers. At the Strikers he played five seasons before moving to Northern Spirit for the 1990/2000 season. Cranney played for Australia at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Cranney made his full international debut in November 1996 for Australia in an OFC Nations Cup match against New", "id": "18125994" }, { "contents": "Derek Spalding\n\n\nDerek Spalding (born 20 December 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former soccer player, who played as a defender. Spalding played for Hibernian in the Scottish Football League until he emigrated to the United States in 1977. He then played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least two in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the US national team, in 1982. Growing up in Scotland, Spalding signed with First Division club Hibernian as a youth player. He worked his way", "id": "11180604" }, { "contents": "Ross Barkley\n\n\n23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 but did not appear in any of England's matches. Managers and teammates have compared his style of play to those of Michael Ballack, Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Barkley was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. He joined Everton as an 11-year-old and played for the club's youth teams. He was named as a substitute in a first team league match in early 2010–11, and was expected to make his Premier League debut before his leg was broken in one place after a collision with", "id": "7578236" }, { "contents": "Erick Chipeta\n\n\nErick Chipeta (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Zimbabwe national team. Chipeta started his career in Zimbabwe with Hwange Colliery, where he remained for two years before leaving his homeland for South Africa for the first time. 2014 saw Chipeta join newly promoted Premier Soccer League side Chippa United. He made his debut for Chippa in a 1–1 draw at home to Mamelodi Sundowns on 22 October. In total he made 18 appearances and scored 1 goal in his first season", "id": "6134269" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\nShaun Antony Rooney (born 26 July 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Rooney has previously played for Queen's Park, Dunfermline Athletic, York City and Queen of the South. Rooney was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. Rooney started his career playing youth football with Bellshill Boys Club and Dundee United, before signing with Scottish League Two club Queen's Park in July 2013. Rooney's first-team debut came shortly after signing for the club, in", "id": "16210765" }, { "contents": "Robert Trajkovski\n\n\nRobert Trajkovski (born 24 July 1972) is an Australian former footballer. Trajkovski began his senior career with Altona before moving to National Soccer League team Melbourne City. After a season with Melbourne City Trajkovski transferred to Sydney United. He played two season for United between 1995 and 1997. In the 1997/98 season Trajkovski played for Carlton, playing 22 matches. Trajkovski moved to Perth Glory for the 1998/99 season. After playing 73 matches over three seasons for the Glory he moved to Northern Spirit where he saw out his top flight career", "id": "5112927" }, { "contents": "Sasa Macura\n\n\nSasa Macura is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Manly United in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Macura played youth football for Northern Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Bonnyrigg White Eagles before moving to Hungary. There, he made his professional debut for MTK Budapest as well as playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II for MTK's reserve team and Szigetszentmiklósi. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for Blacktown City. He moved to Manly United in 2017. Macura was born in", "id": "14725944" }, { "contents": "Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)\n\n\nPhilip Anthony Jones (born 21 February 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Manchester United and the English national team. Before joining Manchester United, Jones played for Blackburn Rovers at both youth and senior levels. Although primarily a centre-back, he has also been used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Jones has represented England at various levels and is currently a member of the England senior squad. He played for the under-19 team in 2009 before making his debut for the under-21 team in 2010", "id": "13966664" }, { "contents": "Paul Bilokapic\n\n\nPaul Bilokapic (born 8 August 1976) is an Australian former soccer player. He played as a midfielder. After playing youth football for Yaralla, he moved to Sydney Croatia (later Sydney United) where he played until the end of the 1997–98 National Soccer League season. After two seasons with Northern Spirit FC, he returned to Sydney United, where he played until the end of the 2002–03 National Soccer League season. Bilokapic made his full international debut for Australia in February 1998 in a friendly match against Chile. He made", "id": "10116884" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875)\n\n\nJames Jackson (15 September 1875 – after 1914) was a footballer who played as a full back or at wing half. Jackson's family emigrated from Scotland to Australia where he was raised and where he began his senior football career while still in his early teens. He returned to Scotland in 1893, appearing in Junior football and briefly for Rangers before moving to England to join Newcastle United. Two years later he signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he spent six seasons, captaining the club in its inaugural season in the Football League", "id": "19786821" }, { "contents": "David Carney\n\n\nDavid Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC. Born in Sydney, he began his playing career with the New South Wales Institute of Sport before moving to England to join Everton. Having failed to break into the Everton first team he then moved to Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical in Scotland before returning to his native Australia. After a successful spell with Sydney FC, Carney then returned to England, signing with Sheffield United before", "id": "3576647" }, { "contents": "John Pritchard (footballer)\n\n\nJohn Vincent Pritchard (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Ashton United. Pritchard was in his youth a trainee by Manchester United, before joined in April 2012 to Oldham Athletic. He made his debut for Oldham Athletic on 21 December 2013 in a 2–0 defeat to Colchester United at Boundary Park, he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Adam Rooney. After two seasons was released and joined in August 2014 to FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League", "id": "278653" }, { "contents": "APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC\n\n\nhistory of the club when skipper Jimmy Rooney and centreforward Peter Ollerton, who scored five goals, won 9–1 against Auburn in front of a crowd of 5210 at Wentworth Park, the highest finals result ever. Rooney and Ollerton were also in the team that represented Australia a few months later in its first World Cup participation in Germany. In 1979 APIA was given access to the National Soccer League, the top tier of Australian soccer since 1977. In 1987 APIA won the national championship, six points ahead of the Preston Makedonia Soccer", "id": "17492652" }, { "contents": "Ante Moric\n\n\nAnte Tomislav Moric (born 19 April 1974) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Leagues Victoria side Dandenong City SC. Moric played at club level in Australia and Croatia for St. George, AIS, Sydney United, Zadar, Canberra Cosmos, Sydney Olympic, Fraser Park, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Rockdale City Suns. He also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After a stint with the youth side of National Premier Leagues NSW 2 side St George", "id": "5169013" }, { "contents": "John May (Australian footballer)\n\n\nJohn May (born 15 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). May was recruited to play for Essendon's under-19s from West Coburg in the Essendon District Football League. In 1970, his second season with the under-19s, he was named captain and also played several matches in the reserves before making his senior VFL debut late in the season. He kicked one goal from his three games playing as a midfielder and stayed with Essendon for another year, but", "id": "16685305" }, { "contents": "Andrew Fox (footballer)\n\n\nAndrew Thomas Philip Fox (born 15 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fox began his playing career during his time at university, playing football in the USA for 4 years with St. Edward's University Soccer Team. After a short spell at Texan club Midland/Odessa Sockers, Fox moved back to England in July 2015, where he joined League One side Peterborough United on a free transfer. He joined National League side Kidderminster Harriers on loan", "id": "3891979" }, { "contents": "Petar Franjic\n\n\nPetar Franjic (born 7 April 1992) is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Avondale FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Franjic joined the Melbourne Knights FC under 21 squad in 2009 after spending a number of years with the Victorian Institute of Sport. That year, he made his breakthrough into senior football, making six appearances for the first team in the Victorian Premier League in the first half of the season. He was then picked up by A-League side Melbourne Victory FC, initially with the youth team.", "id": "1076969" }, { "contents": "Jacob Burns (soccer)\n\n\nJacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory. Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay. His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October", "id": "5439205" }, { "contents": "Zander Diamond\n\n\nAlexander Kevin \"Zander\" Diamond (born 12 March 1985) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He began his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen, before moving to Oldham Athletic in 2011; he later played for Burton Albion, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town in England. He won eleven caps for Scotland under-21s. Raised in the west of Scotland in Dumbarton, Alexandria-born Diamond graduated from the youth team at Aberdeen in his first full season and made his League debut against Dundee", "id": "20263817" }, { "contents": "Hilton Kotzur\n\n\nHilton Kotzur (born 20 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kotzur represented New South Wales as a junior, but was also a member of the Victorian team which won the 1981 Teal Cup, earning All-Australian honours He joined the Swans when they were still based in Melbourne and played both Under-19s and reserves football for the club, before he fractured two vertebrae in 1982. The back injury stalled his career and it was not until", "id": "20658877" }, { "contents": "Christopher Forrester\n\n\nChristopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland Premier Division. He has also previously played for Bohemians, Peterborough United, Aberdeen and the Republic of Ireland under-21's. In March 2016 he was called up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad but has yet to be capped. Forrester started his schoolboy career with his local team, Smithfield, where he stayed for three seasons. He played for Bohemians for three seasons before", "id": "3737210" }, { "contents": "James Meyer (footballer)\n\n\nJames Meyer (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Queensland club Brisbane City. Born in Sydney, Meyer started his youth career with Brisbane City FC in 2005. The following year Meyer went to Europe and signed on as a youth player for Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and then Hertha BSC of Germany the next year. He then returned to Australia in 2008 to play for Olympic FC of the Queensland State League before joining Eastern Suburbs F.C. of the Brisbane Premier League", "id": "21300581" }, { "contents": "Billy Ions\n\n\nRooney and Spanish forward Fernando Torres to whom he compared himself to. Ions first started playing football in the youth team of the local village of Valle de San Lorenzo in Tenerife, named \"Constanza\". Years later he started to play in the football school of Juan Miguel. At the age of 15, Ions joined the youth setup at CD Tenerife. In February 2010, he returned to England to join Newcastle United, the club he supported as a child. He made his Under-18's debut in a home match against", "id": "2185330" }, { "contents": "Jason Geria\n\n\nJason Kato Geria (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for JEF United Chiba in the J2 League and for the Australia national team. Born in Canberra, Geria played youth football with the Australian Institute of Sport and Brisbane Roar youth before joining Melbourne Victory in 2012, where he made his professional debut and played for five years. Geria was born in Canberra to Ugandan parents. Geria's first youth club was Weston Creek SC in Canberra. He also played in", "id": "13593993" }, { "contents": "Vincent Bezecourt\n\n\nVincent Bezecourt (born 10 June 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Bezecourt began his football career in France with Jeunesse Villenavaise and made his debut with the first team during the 2012 season in Championnat de France amateur. In two season with the first team, he appeared in 52 league matches scoring 9 goals. In 2014, he went to the United States to play College soccer for St. Francis Brooklyn under head coach Tom Giovatto. In his first", "id": "7942392" }, { "contents": "Oliver Puflett\n\n\nOliver Puflett (born 26 July 1999) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a striker for S.League club Home United. Puflett started his career with the Western Sydney Wanderers FC, playing for its Under-21 team, scoring 5 goals in 11 games over 2 years. He also won the Y-League title in the 2017-18 season with them. He played for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC Under-21 squad before signing his first professional contract and joining Singapore Premier League side Home United FC in March 2019. He then made", "id": "9045653" }, { "contents": "Massimo Luongo\n\n\nMassimo Corey Luongo ( ; born 25 September 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Queens Park Rangers and the Australian national team. Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Queens Park Rangers in 2015. Luongo has played for the Australia", "id": "15251787" }, { "contents": "Graham Moss\n\n\nGraham Moss (born 14 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who was highly successful in both the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a Brownlow Medal-winning ruckman and played 343 senior games in the WAFL and VFL. Moss debuted for Claremont Football Club in the WAFL in 1969. In 1970, he made his debut for the Western Australian state team. Essendon attempted to lure him to Melbourne several times, and finally succeeded before the", "id": "15698753" }, { "contents": "Luke Power\n\n\nLuke Power (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). A member of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premiership winning teams, he played 282 games for the Lions before moving to Greater Western Sydney where he played his final season. He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Giants. Power debuted for the Lions as an 18-year-old in 1998, and he has", "id": "12553548" }, { "contents": "Robert Ironside (footballer)\n\n\nRobert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His club career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Sydney Olympic in the Australian National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to Newcastle Breakers He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle Ironside made his All White debut in a 1-1", "id": "19673589" }, { "contents": "James Jeggo\n\n\nJames Alexander Jeggo ( ; born 12 February 1992) is an Austrian-born Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a central midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and the Australian national team. Born in Vienna, Austria, Jeggo moved to Australia as a child, where he started his footballing career in youth football with Green Gully and at the Victorian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Melbourne Victory. Jeggo was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Australia as a child, growing", "id": "5614644" }, { "contents": "Jason Trifiro\n\n\nJason Trifiro (born 3 June 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Nunawading City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. Trifiro started his career in the semi-professional lower leagues in Australia, playing in New South Wales for National Premier Leagues NSW clubs Marconi Stallions, APIA Leichhardt and the South Coast Wolves. In 2011, he moved to Victoria where he played the 2011 Victorian Premier League with Northcote alongside his brother, before they both moved to ex-NSL heavyweight South Melbourne in the National", "id": "7283672" }, { "contents": "Stephen Glass (footballer)\n\n\nStephen Glass (born 23 May 1976) is a former Scottish professional footballer who is the current head coach of Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship. A midfielder, Glass started his career at Aberdeen, with whom he won the 1995 Scottish League Cup. In 1998, he moved to England, transferring to Newcastle United of the Premier League. Shortly after joining Newcastle, Glass made an appearance for the Scotland national football team. He joined Watford in the First Division in 2001, before returning to Scotland in 2003 with Hibernian", "id": "19685891" }, { "contents": "Stephen O'Donnell (footballer, born 1983)\n\n\nStephen James O'Donnell (born 10 July 1983) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career with Dundee United, making his debut in 2002. He spent time on loan with Ross County before leaving Dundee United in 2005 to play briefly in England with Boston United. Returning to Scottish football, O'Donnell had spells with Clyde and St Mirren before joining Dundee in 2010, where he later became club captain. He rejoined Clyde in 2014 and left the club in 2015. He was a Scotland under-20 international", "id": "10873501" }, { "contents": "Brian Robinson (soccer)\n\n\nBrian Robinson (born 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He started playing at the age of ten with the Evening Optimist Club in his home town and later starred in the Victoria High School team that reached the B.C. High School final in 1966. At 17 he was playing for Vic West in the Victoria City League where he played for two years before joining Victoria United in the Pacific Coast League. By 1970 he was playing in the Western Canada Soccer League", "id": "11330905" }, { "contents": "Daniel McBreen\n\n\nDaniel James McBreen (born 23 April 1977) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW club Edgeworth, and is a coach with Newcastle Jets U15. Born in England, McBreen moved to Australia with his family when he was six weeks old and started his career in local football with Toronto Awaba Stags and Edgeworth Eagles. He earned a professional contract with National Soccer League club Newcastle United in 2000, where he played for two seasons before joining Universitatea Craiova of the Romanian Divizia A.", "id": "9649312" }, { "contents": "Tomislav Uskok\n\n\nTomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney United in the National Premier Leagues. Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club Melbourne Knights. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined Victorian State League Division 1 side St Albans Saints for the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014", "id": "8367993" }, { "contents": "Austin Berry (soccer)\n\n\nthe newly-formed club FC Cincinnati in the lower division United Soccer League. He served as FC Cincinnati's team captain for two seasons before retiring from his playing career and accepting a position as the club's strength and conditioning coach. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended the Summit Country Day School for high school where he played four fall seasons of soccer. With a 14–1–1 record during his senior year, Berry contributed 10 goals, 6 assists, and led his team to the Regional finals. He earned first team", "id": "19581628" }, { "contents": "Gary Smith (footballer, born 1968)\n\n\nGary Neil Smith (born 3 December 1968) is an English former footballer. He is currently Head Coach & Technical Director of Nashville SC in the United Soccer League, the second tier in the US soccer pyramid. Smith's playing career began at Fulham, progressing through the youth team before making one first-team appearance for the club. After a brief spell with Colchester United, Smith joined non-league side Enfield in 1989. His most successful spell during his playing days was at Wycombe Wanderers, spending two seasons with", "id": "686418" }, { "contents": "Lee Scroggins\n\n\nLeepaul Scroggins (born 23 October 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for South Shields. Scroggins began his career with Darlington, but moved on to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Blyth Spartans in 2001 without having played for Darlington's first team. He spent just over a year with Spartans, before joining Whitley Bay of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. Scroggins then moved to the United States, where he had a successful college soccer career at Lynn University, graduating in Sports Recreation", "id": "8969031" }, { "contents": "Brad Smith (footballer, born 1948)\n\n\nBrad R. Smith (born 3 December 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also had a long career in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) where he played for East Perth and coached East Fremantle. Smith was a late comer to VFL football as he had spent eight years at East Perth before joining North Melbourne. He was a member of East Perth's 1972 and 1978 premiership teams and a back pocket player in", "id": "8985200" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Dunne (footballer, born 1997)\n\n\nJames Gerard Dunne (born 19 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Burnley. Dunne played locally in Ireland before joining the youth set-up at Manchester United in 2007. After transferring to Burnley in 2016, he spent time on loan at Barrow (where he made his senior debut in August 2017) and Accrington Stanley (where he made his Football League debut in January 2018). Born in Dundalk Dunne began his career with St Kevin's Boys Club before joining the Manchester", "id": "18334762" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\na Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Ayr United at Hampden Park. During the 2013–14 season, Rooney made 11 appearances for Queen's Park. His breakthrough season came in 2014–15, when he played in 30 matches, scoring his first goal on 15 November 2014 with a header against Elgin City in a 4–1 win. Rooney's impressive performances for Queen's Park saw him awarded the club's Young Player of the Year and also being named in the PFA Scotland Scottish League Two Team of the Year. The start of 2015–16 saw Rooney", "id": "16210766" }, { "contents": "Jonas Salley\n\n\nGyawe Jonas Salley (born 16 March 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a former Ivorian-Australian footballer, who last played for Hohhot Zhongyou in China League One. He is currently an assistant coach for Qingdao Red Lions. Salley moved to Australia to escape from the civil and government problems of his home country in 2006. He first played at Mill Park Soccer Club, where his outstanding performances were noticed within a very short time. He was eventually signed up to play with Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne. He was then", "id": "20136861" }, { "contents": "Alan Green (soccer)\n\n\nAlan Green (born 1 January 1954) is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Green, a native of Worcester, England, began his professional career with Coventry City. He joined the club as a striker in 1970, but did not make his first team debut until April 22, 1972, which was", "id": "15514446" }, { "contents": "Tommy Kelly (footballer)\n\n\nTommy Kelly was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A dynamic midfielder, he is quite simply a Bohemian F.C. legend, his career at Dalymount Park spanning 3 different decades. He appeared in a club record 19 games in European competition and won 2 League of Ireland titles. He joined Bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the \"B\" team. He made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over Drogheda on April 10, 1966.", "id": "14451234" }, { "contents": "Kevin Egan\n\n\nKevin Egan (born 10 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and played in Essendon's 1965 premiership team. Egan was used mostly as a rover and wingman. After leaving Essendon Egan spent some time at both South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide and the Victorian", "id": "1551420" }, { "contents": "Kenny Hill (association footballer)\n\n\nKenneth George Hill (born 7 March 1953) is an English former association football defender who played professionally in England and the North American Soccer League. In 1971, he joined Gillingham, playing 125 league matches before leaving the team for the United States in 1974. That year, he signed with the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He also played for Maidstone United, where he began his career, Lincoln City, with whom he made a single appearance in", "id": "347314" }, { "contents": "Ray Farningham\n\n\nRay Farningham (born 10 April 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder for a handful of Scottish clubs. He previously managed Forfar Athletic, Montrose and was the assistant manager of Dundee. Ray is now assistant manager at junior side Lochee United F.C. Farningham trained as a youth with Dundee United before beginning his senior career with Forfar Athletic, making his debut towards the end of the 1970s. In his seven years at Station Park, Farningham was part of the sides which won the 1983–84 Scottish Second", "id": "3703221" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Kirk\n\n\nJames Kirk (born 12 November 1925) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Bury, Colchester United, Torquay United and Aldershot. Born in Tarbolton, Kirk began his career in Scotland with St Mirren, where he made 86 league appearances for the club, before moving to England to play for Bury, where he featured in 79 Football League matches. Kirk joined Colchester United in 1954 and spent one season with the club, making his", "id": "21920041" }, { "contents": "Gary Crouch\n\n\nGary Crouch (born 27 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After leaving Essendon, Crouch played for Rochester for one season before moving to Western Australia and joining Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He spent four seasons with Subiaco, playing on half back flank in the 1973 WAFL winning Grand Final team. He then moved back to Victoria to the Bendigo Football League (BFL). Crouch played one season with South Bendigo and", "id": "16878056" }, { "contents": "Neil Jenkins (footballer)\n\n\nNeil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Leatherhead F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team. Born in Carshalton, London, Jenkins joined the Essex based team Southend United in July 2002, on a one", "id": "9293884" }, { "contents": "John Reilly (footballer, born 1962)\n\n\nJohn Reilly (born 21 March 1962 in Dundee) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Reilly began his career with Dundee United, signing as a schoolboy from Strathtay Boys Club in 1979. He played for the Scotland Under 17 and Under 18 professional youth sides before making his first team debut in August 1980. He was a member of the squad that won a Premier League Winners medal in season 1982–1983 before going onto score the club's first ever goal in the European Cup the following season. Signing", "id": "10817319" } ]

[ { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nJames Rooney (born 10 December 1945 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former association football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 FIFA World Cup squad in West Germany. Rooney was a left winger who played first team football with Lochee United, Peterborough United and Montrose F.C. in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1960s. He was an instant success there with Ukrainian Essendon Lions before transferring to Sydney to join the Prague club in 1970, and later playing at APIA Leichhardt, in", "id": "318576" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\n1974 FIFA World Cup campaign, earning himself many admirers for his hard tackling and ball distribution. The Jimmy Rooney Medal, awarded from 1992 onwards to the man of the match in the Victorian Premier League Grand Final, was named in his honour. He has recently settled to a managerial role of Victorian senior team, Eastern Lions, and also hosts a junior training program. He is also currently the head coach of the first eleven soccer team at St Kevin's College, Melbourne, Australia. In his second season in charge", "id": "318578" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nthe New South Wales First Division. In 1977, with APIA not joining the newly formed National Soccer League, Rooney joined Marconi Fairfield for two seasons, before moving back to Victoria where he played with Fitzroy Alexander and Croydon City Arrows. He made his Australian debut against a England XI in 1971, going on play 57 times for his country (although he also accrued caps in \"B\" team fixtures, bringing the total to 102) in a career spanning a decade. He was Australia's first choice midfielder in the", "id": "318577" }, { "contents": "Ronald Chitiyo\n\n\nRonald Chitiyo (born 10 June 1992), commonly known as Rooney, is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national team. Chitiyo, son of former footballer Frank Chitiyo, began his senior career with Douglas Warriors. Two years later, he would leave to join Monomotapa United, during his time with Monomotapa he finished as second runner-up in the 2012 Soccer Star of the Year award. In 2013, Chitiyo had trials at South African Premier Soccer League", "id": "230018" }, { "contents": "Jim Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nJim Rooney (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional soccer player who played as both a midfielder and a striker. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Soccer League team Boca Raton FC. Jim Rooney was born in The Bronx, New York City. Rooney played college soccer at Fordham University and C.W. Post. At C.W. Post, he played with the Pioneers. He currently holds the school's record for most goals in a single season: 21. Rooney began his professional career in 1994 with", "id": "327338" }, { "contents": "Wayne Rooney\n\n\nWayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles. He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United. At club level, he has won every honour available in English, European and Continental football, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup. Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the", "id": "20357111" }, { "contents": "Mark Rooney\n\n\nMark Rooney (born 13 December 1983) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker. He is the elder brother of Adam Rooney. Rooney began his senior career at Dublin City before joining UCD in 2003 where he broke into the Student's first team. Rooney only stayed at Belfield Park for one season before joining his former manager at UCD, Paul Doolin at Drogheda United in 2004. Despite a difficult season for him personally, only scoring one league goal in 22 appearances, Rooney was part of the Drogheda United", "id": "21841504" }, { "contents": "Bobby Rooney\n\n\nRobert Rooney (8 July 1938 – 9 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who made 47 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City. He played as a winger. Rooney was born in Cowie, Stirling, and began his football career with Clydebank Juniors in his native Scotland before joining English Second Division club Sheffield United in 1958. He played occasionally in his first two seasons with the club, but not thereafter. In the 1962–63 season, he was registered with three clubs:", "id": "776620" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Gabriel\n\n\nJames Gabriel (born 10 October 1940) is a Scottish former football midfielder, who earned two caps with the Scotland national football team. Chiefly associated with English club Everton, Gabriel played extensively in Scotland and England before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach in both England and the USA, where he lives today. Jimmy Gabriel first came to the attention of Dundee when he played at right-half for the Scotland under-15 schoolboys in an international at Dens Park.", "id": "5028700" }, { "contents": "Con Boutsianis\n\n\nConstantinos \"Con\" Boutsianis (born 27 December 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former international, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Boutsianis began his career with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in 1989, and soon established himself as a goalscoring midfielder. He left South at the end of the 1994/95 season to join Heidelberg United for the 1996 Victorian Premier League season, before joining Collingwood Warriors for their one and only season in the NSL. Following the club's demise at", "id": "4070407" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\nSteven Laurie (born 30 October 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who played as a defender. He played in England with West Ham United's youth academy and Peterborough United, before returning to Australia to play for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League and Sydney FC in the A-League. He is currently the head manager of Geelong SC. Steve Laurie started his professional youth career with the Victorian Institute of Sport, spending a year at the academy in 1997", "id": "21322154" }, { "contents": "David Jones (footballer, born 1955)\n\n\nDavid Jones (born 1 April 1955 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian former soccer player and coach. Jones played his junior soccer for Kwinana United before graduating to the senior team in 1970. He remained with the club until the end of the 1975 season, where he won the Rothmans Gold Medal award for the season's fairest and best player. In 1976 Jones played for East Fremantle Tricolore. In the first year of the National Soccer League in 1977 he played for West Adelaide and was part of the club", "id": "12543554" }, { "contents": "Luke Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nLuke William Rooney (born 28 December 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and is a free agent after leaving his most recent club, Welling United. Born in Bermondsey, London, Rooney joined Gillingham as an apprentice professional in 2007. He forced his way into the first team squad in early December 2008 and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup second round replay at Stockport County. In early 2009 he was loaned out to Lewes of the Conference National, where he made six appearances. He turned", "id": "6731049" }, { "contents": "Preston Lions FC\n\n\nthe Year Bill Fleming Medal – Media voted VPL Player of the Year Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year Victorian Premier League Under 21 Player of the Year Jimmy Rooney Medal – VPL Grand Final Man of the Match Weinstein Medal Junior Player of the Year Australian Representatives – Senior Level National Representatives – Youth Team Victorian State Representatives – Senior Level ● Preston Makedonia Inaugural season *Victorian Provisional League* 1959 - 4th - 10 Teams in League. ● Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2", "id": "19353574" }, { "contents": "Bob Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nRobert “Bob” Rooney was a U.S. soccer center forward who spent his playing career in the St. Louis leagues. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957. Rooney grew up in the Dogtown area of St. Louis, attending St. James Grade School and St. Louis University High School. As a youth, he played both football and baseball in addition to soccer spending five seasons with a St. Louis Cardinals farm team. Even while playing in the local St. Louis soccer leagues, Rooney earned a living as a", "id": "2939914" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\n, before moving to England, joining the youth academy of West Ham United F.C. in 1998. Laurie remained with the Hammers academy until 2002, then moving to Peterborough United F.C.. He returned to Australia after being lured back by former Rangers F.C. player and then coach Stuart Munro to play for National Soccer League powerhouse South Melbourne FC in the last season of the NSL. Laurie was one of the first six signings for the newly formed Hyundai A-League club Sydney FC, although later he was released from his contract via mutual", "id": "21322155" }, { "contents": "William McLachlan (footballer)\n\n\nWilliam McLachlan (born 19 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Airdrie United and for Australian club Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. McLachlan began his career with Rangers and appeared for the Scotland U-16 team in a Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland in October 2004. In December 2008, he joined Airdrie United on loan. He made his debut against St Johnstone on 20 December.", "id": "18351658" }, { "contents": "Joe Montemurro\n\n\nJoseph Adrian Montemurro (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian former soccer player, currently the manager of Arsenal Women. Montemurro played as a midfielder during his short professional career, mainly in Italy, before returning to Australia to play in the Victorian state leagues. He began coaching in youth football for various Victorian clubs, before his first managerial role with Sunshine George Cross, and then later, Coburg United. His first job abroad came in 2013, spending four months as the inaugural manager of Papa New Guinean side Port Moresby", "id": "14957118" }, { "contents": "Tommy Rooney\n\n\nTommy Rooney (born 30 December 1984) is an English footballer who played for League Two club Macclesfield Town during the 2004–05 season as a striker and later played non-league football for Vauxhall Motors. Tommy, who is the cousin of Wayne, John and Graeme Rooney, began his career at Tranmere Rovers, where he played in the youth and reserve sides but did not break into the first-team. He joined League Two club Macclesfield Town in May 2004 on a one-year contract and made two league and cup", "id": "9458597" }, { "contents": "Steven Weir\n\n\nSteven Weir (born 3 October 1988) is a Scottish Junior footballer who plays as a striker for West of Scotland Super League Premier Division club Arthurlie. Born in Harthill, Scotland, he started his career with Livingston, where he also spent a spell on loan at Cowdenbeath. He joined Arbroath before moving to Australia where he played for North Eastern Soccer League side, Shepparton South. He scored 28 goals in 12 games in his first season with the club, and played his first match for the team four hours after arriving", "id": "18510479" }, { "contents": "Jimmy McDonnell\n\n\nJames McDonnell (1927 – 30 September 2017) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team spanned three decades from 1948 until 1960. Born in Darver, County Louth, McDonnell first played competitive Gaelic football with the Darver Volunteers club. He won a junior league medal in 1952 before winning a county junior championship medal in 1956. From 1961 onward McDonnell played with the newly-formed St. Joseph's club. McDonnell made his debut with the Louth senior team during", "id": "4115167" }, { "contents": "Sean Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nSean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the", "id": "16687041" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)\n\n\nJames E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee, and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock. Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928. In a five-and-a-half-year career with", "id": "9343677" }, { "contents": "Dylan Murnane\n\n\nDylan Murnane (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a left back for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. In 2012, Murnane was a member of the Port Melbourne SC side that won promotion to the Victorian Premier League and reached the final of the State Knockout Cup, before he was recruited by the Melbourne Victory Youth team. After initially joining the club as member of the youth team in late 2012, Murnane made his professional debut with home town giants Melbourne Victory against Sydney", "id": "12515687" }, { "contents": "Jim Tansey\n\n\nJim Tansey (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian former association football player. The son of Everton footballer Jimmy Tansey, Tansey was born in Liverpool, England in 1953. He emigrated to Australia in 1974. Tansey began his senior playing career for South Liverpool F.C.. After moving to Australia, he played for Slavia Melbourne in the Victorian State League. With the start of the National Soccer League (NSL), Tansey moved to Fitzroy United Alexander. He later played for NSL club Footscray JUST. Between 1975 and 1981", "id": "10339389" }, { "contents": "Ray McKinnon (footballer)\n\n\nRaymond McKinnon (born 5 August 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the manager of Falkirk. As a player, McKinnon was a midfielder whose clubs included Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Aberdeen, Livingston, Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also represented the Scotland under-21 team. McKinnon began his managerial career in junior football with Lochee United before managing senior clubs Brechin City, Raith Rovers, Dundee United, Morton and left just three months later for Falkirk. McKinnon was born in Dundee on 5 August", "id": "4406705" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Douglas (Canadian soccer)\n\n\nJimmy Douglas (born October 6, 1948 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish-Canadian soccer midfielder and head coach. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League and earned fourteen caps for the Canadian national soccer team. Born in Scotland, Douglas moved to Canada in 1964 when he was sixteen. He almost immediately began playing for St. Catharines Heidelberg in the National Soccer League and by 1970 was in the first team. In 1974, he played in the North American Soccer League with the Toronto Metros before returning", "id": "12329068" }, { "contents": "Gary Hasler\n\n\nGary Hasler (born 5 May 1970) is an Australian former association football player. he played in the National Soccer League for Sunshine George Cross and South Melbourne. In international football, he made two appearances for Australia and also represented the country at the 1992 Olympics. Hasler joined Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League in 1989. In 1992, he joined South Melbourne. After two seasons he moved to Heidelberg in the Victorian Premier League. Hasler was a member of the Australian squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In", "id": "18353802" }, { "contents": "Sebastian Ryall\n\n\nSebastian \"Seb\" Ryall (born 18 July 1989) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender, most recently for Sydney FC. Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Football Club in Sydney. Ryall later played for the AIS in the Victorian Premier League before signing for Melbourne Victory on a 2-year contract in August 2007. He made his first appearance for the club in their round 3 match against Adelaide United and played in their Grand Final win over Adelaide in March 2009. In April 2009", "id": "1237851" }, { "contents": "Cameron Watson (footballer)\n\n\nCameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side Moreland Zebras FC. Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move", "id": "15681415" }, { "contents": "Jack Ross (footballer, born 1976)\n\n\nJohn James Ross (born 5 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the manager of English League One club Sunderland. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He", "id": "9812399" }, { "contents": "Jesse Daley\n\n\nJesse Daley (born 16 October 1997) is an Australian soccer player who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship. Daley spent time at Queensland Academy of Sport, before playing with the youth team at Brisbane Roar, before spending time with Melbourne Victory following his release from the club, before again playing with Brisbane Roar. Daley joined National Premier Leagues Victoria side South Melbourne FC ahead of their 2017 season. He left the club in January 2018, joining National Premier League side Lions FC. Following a trial, Daley", "id": "13637473" }, { "contents": "Steven Pace\n\n\nSteven Pace (born 6 March 1983) is an Australian footballer who plays for Heidelberg United FC. Earlier in his career, Pace played for various Victorian teams, including South Melbourne, Essendon Royals and the Preston Lions. He has been described as a \"utility\" player, having played as a midfielder as well as a central defender. He played in the latter position for the Preston Lions in their successful 2007 campaign, when they won the Victorian Premier League Championship. When the Melbourne Victory signed Pace in October 2007,", "id": "2478195" }, { "contents": "Evans Rusike\n\n\nEvans Rusike (born 13 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for Premier Soccer League side Supersport United in South Africa. He also plays for the Zimbabwe national team. Rusike began his career in Zimbabwe with Kiglon in 2010, before moving to Zimbabwe Saints in 2012. Three years later, in 2015, he left his homeland for the first time as he agreed to join South African Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United. His league debut came on 22 August against Ajax Cape Town. At the end", "id": "8298403" }, { "contents": "Tarek Elrich\n\n\nTarek Elrich (born 1 January 1987) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a right back and midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League. Elrich was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his senior career with Sydney Olympic, before moving to Newcastle Jets in 2006. In 2012, he moved to new club Western Sydney Wanderers before moving again to Adelaide United one season later. Tarek played youth football for Australia, before being called up to the Lebanon national team in 2012.", "id": "21014072" }, { "contents": "Dominic Smith (footballer)\n\n\nDominic Rooney Smith (born 22 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Northern Premier League North Division side Droylsden. He began his career with Crewe Alexandra, where he progressed through the club's Academy, but failed to make a first team appearance. He joined Colchester United in 2014, where he made his Football League debut in September 2014. He had a brief loan spell at A.F.C. Hornchurch, before leaving Colchester after the expiry of his one-year deal. He has since represented numerous Northern", "id": "18972781" }, { "contents": "Dave Harding\n\n\nDavid Harding (born 14 August 1946) is a former football (soccer) midfielder. He played for Wrexham from 1965 to 1966, then South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, before moving to Australia where he played for Pan Hellenic, Western Suburbs, Blacktown City and APIA until 1981. In this time he won NSW representative honours in 1974 against Bristol Rovers. Harding was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany and represented Australia 45 times between 1974 and 1977 scoring 11 times. More recently he", "id": "3031486" }, { "contents": "George Howard (footballer)\n\n\nGeorge Howard (born 8 October 1996) is an English-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker. George Howard moved to Australia with his family aged 1 or 15 from England where he had participated in the Sheffield United Academy, and was playing senior football for then fourth tier Victorian State League Division 1 side Eastern Lions by age 16. Howard joined National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 club Box Hill United in 2014, and was recruited to the Melbourne Victory Youth squad by Darren Davies in 2015. He trialled with the", "id": "12301976" }, { "contents": "George Slifkas\n\n\nGeorge Slifkas (born 18 October 1969) is an Australian former association football player. Slifkas played for Preston Makedonia, Heidelberg United and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s he dropped down to the Victorian Premier League where he played for the Bulleen Lions, the Thomastown Zebras and the Melbourne Raiders. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Slifkas played four matches as Australia placed fourth. In 1993 Slifkas made his first and only international appearance for Australia as a substitute in a match against", "id": "18566415" }, { "contents": "Luciano Trani\n\n\nLuciano Trani (born 10 August 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former football (soccer) player who was most recently the manager of National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side North Geelong Warriors FC. Trani began coaching at the Victorian Premier League and National Soccer League levels with the Fawkner Blues, Essendon Royals, Whittlesea Stallions, Brisbane Strikers and the Melbourne Knights. He then took up roles as a coaching instructor for Football Federation Victoria and Head Coach of Pascoe Vale FC, before joining Wellington Phoenix. He then transferred to", "id": "3270514" }, { "contents": "Touk Miller\n\n\n. Such was his talent, he was selected to represent the under 15 Victorian state cricket team at the national championships in March 2011 and made his first XI debut for the North Melbourne Cricket Club at the Junction Oval in December 2011 before electing to focus on football the following year. Miller played all of his junior years with the Maribyrnong Park Lions in the Essendon District Football League and made his senior debut for the club in 2011 at the age of 15. He played junior football for both St Kevin's College in the", "id": "17982973" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Bullard\n\n\nJames Richard Bullard (born 23 October 1978) is an English former footballer, coach and television presenter. He is currently co-host of the Saturday morning Sky TV show Soccer AM. As a player he was a midfielder and played youth football at West Ham United before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet in 1998. Two seasons at Peterborough United was followed by a spell at Wigan Athletic where he scored ten goals in 145 league appearances, helping them to their first promotion to the Premier League. Bullard was known for being a", "id": "8289895" }, { "contents": "Kieran Dover\n\n\nKieran Dover is an Australian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Green Gully in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. From Stockton-on-Tees, Dover started his career at the youth team of Sunderland before moving to Australia at the age of twelve, where he joined the youth ranks at Berwick City. He then eventually went on to join Dandenong Thunder of the NPL Victoria where he was named Winning Edge Presentations Rising Star of the Month in August. He also played for the Melbourne Victory youth sides in", "id": "8333803" }, { "contents": "Andrew Robertson\n\n\nAndrew Robertson (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. Robertson began his senior career with Queen's Park in 2012 before joining Dundee United a year later. His form in his first season as a professional led to him being named SPFA Young Player of the Year and also making his international debut. He joined Hull City in July 2014 for a fee of £2.85 million, before joining Liverpool in July 2017 for an", "id": "17961904" }, { "contents": "Steve Hayward\n\n\nSteve Hayward (born 8 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder in a sixteen-year career spanning from 1988 to 2004. Born in Pelsall near Walsall, Hayward began his career with Derby County and made his League debut in 1990, but found first-team opportunities limited. He joined Carlisle United in 1994 and won two promotions from Division Three and the 1997 Football League Trophy Final during his time at the club before moving to Fulham in 1997. He played a role in Fulham", "id": "6088205" }, { "contents": "Vince Lia\n\n\nVince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Adelaide United in the A-League. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior debut with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League. He spent one season with Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues in 2005 before joining Melbourne Victory in 2005 to play in the newly-formed A-League. Lia next spent a decade at Wellington Phoenix, making over 200 appearances for the club in all competitions. He", "id": "5478442" }, { "contents": "Peter Stone (footballer)\n\n\nPeter Stone (born 30 September 1954) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Stone played his junior football for Adamstown before playing for Western Suburbs in the New South Wales state league (1973–1976) and the National Soccer League (1977). In 1978, he moved to APIA Leichhardt, where he played three NSL seasons. Stone moved to St. George in 1980 where he played two seasons. Stone made his international debut for Australia in 1976 against Hong Kong. He also played over in England for Tottenham Hotspur", "id": "5877228" }, { "contents": "Sean Cranney\n\n\nSean Cranney (born 2 October 1973) is an Australian former association football player. Cranney played for Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club before joining Brisbane United in the Queensland state league in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was signed to National Soccer League team Brisbane Strikers. At the Strikers he played five seasons before moving to Northern Spirit for the 1990/2000 season. Cranney played for Australia at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Cranney made his full international debut in November 1996 for Australia in an OFC Nations Cup match against New", "id": "18125994" }, { "contents": "Derek Spalding\n\n\nDerek Spalding (born 20 December 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former soccer player, who played as a defender. Spalding played for Hibernian in the Scottish Football League until he emigrated to the United States in 1977. He then played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least two in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the US national team, in 1982. Growing up in Scotland, Spalding signed with First Division club Hibernian as a youth player. He worked his way", "id": "11180604" }, { "contents": "Ross Barkley\n\n\n23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 but did not appear in any of England's matches. Managers and teammates have compared his style of play to those of Michael Ballack, Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Barkley was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. He joined Everton as an 11-year-old and played for the club's youth teams. He was named as a substitute in a first team league match in early 2010–11, and was expected to make his Premier League debut before his leg was broken in one place after a collision with", "id": "7578236" }, { "contents": "Erick Chipeta\n\n\nErick Chipeta (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Zimbabwe national team. Chipeta started his career in Zimbabwe with Hwange Colliery, where he remained for two years before leaving his homeland for South Africa for the first time. 2014 saw Chipeta join newly promoted Premier Soccer League side Chippa United. He made his debut for Chippa in a 1–1 draw at home to Mamelodi Sundowns on 22 October. In total he made 18 appearances and scored 1 goal in his first season", "id": "6134269" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\nShaun Antony Rooney (born 26 July 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Rooney has previously played for Queen's Park, Dunfermline Athletic, York City and Queen of the South. Rooney was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. Rooney started his career playing youth football with Bellshill Boys Club and Dundee United, before signing with Scottish League Two club Queen's Park in July 2013. Rooney's first-team debut came shortly after signing for the club, in", "id": "16210765" }, { "contents": "Robert Trajkovski\n\n\nRobert Trajkovski (born 24 July 1972) is an Australian former footballer. Trajkovski began his senior career with Altona before moving to National Soccer League team Melbourne City. After a season with Melbourne City Trajkovski transferred to Sydney United. He played two season for United between 1995 and 1997. In the 1997/98 season Trajkovski played for Carlton, playing 22 matches. Trajkovski moved to Perth Glory for the 1998/99 season. After playing 73 matches over three seasons for the Glory he moved to Northern Spirit where he saw out his top flight career", "id": "5112927" }, { "contents": "Sasa Macura\n\n\nSasa Macura is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Manly United in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Macura played youth football for Northern Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Bonnyrigg White Eagles before moving to Hungary. There, he made his professional debut for MTK Budapest as well as playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II for MTK's reserve team and Szigetszentmiklósi. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for Blacktown City. He moved to Manly United in 2017. Macura was born in", "id": "14725944" }, { "contents": "Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)\n\n\nPhilip Anthony Jones (born 21 February 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Manchester United and the English national team. Before joining Manchester United, Jones played for Blackburn Rovers at both youth and senior levels. Although primarily a centre-back, he has also been used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Jones has represented England at various levels and is currently a member of the England senior squad. He played for the under-19 team in 2009 before making his debut for the under-21 team in 2010", "id": "13966664" }, { "contents": "Paul Bilokapic\n\n\nPaul Bilokapic (born 8 August 1976) is an Australian former soccer player. He played as a midfielder. After playing youth football for Yaralla, he moved to Sydney Croatia (later Sydney United) where he played until the end of the 1997–98 National Soccer League season. After two seasons with Northern Spirit FC, he returned to Sydney United, where he played until the end of the 2002–03 National Soccer League season. Bilokapic made his full international debut for Australia in February 1998 in a friendly match against Chile. He made", "id": "10116884" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875)\n\n\nJames Jackson (15 September 1875 – after 1914) was a footballer who played as a full back or at wing half. Jackson's family emigrated from Scotland to Australia where he was raised and where he began his senior football career while still in his early teens. He returned to Scotland in 1893, appearing in Junior football and briefly for Rangers before moving to England to join Newcastle United. Two years later he signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he spent six seasons, captaining the club in its inaugural season in the Football League", "id": "19786821" }, { "contents": "David Carney\n\n\nDavid Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC. Born in Sydney, he began his playing career with the New South Wales Institute of Sport before moving to England to join Everton. Having failed to break into the Everton first team he then moved to Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical in Scotland before returning to his native Australia. After a successful spell with Sydney FC, Carney then returned to England, signing with Sheffield United before", "id": "3576647" }, { "contents": "John Pritchard (footballer)\n\n\nJohn Vincent Pritchard (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Ashton United. Pritchard was in his youth a trainee by Manchester United, before joined in April 2012 to Oldham Athletic. He made his debut for Oldham Athletic on 21 December 2013 in a 2–0 defeat to Colchester United at Boundary Park, he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Adam Rooney. After two seasons was released and joined in August 2014 to FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League", "id": "278653" }, { "contents": "APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC\n\n\nhistory of the club when skipper Jimmy Rooney and centreforward Peter Ollerton, who scored five goals, won 9–1 against Auburn in front of a crowd of 5210 at Wentworth Park, the highest finals result ever. Rooney and Ollerton were also in the team that represented Australia a few months later in its first World Cup participation in Germany. In 1979 APIA was given access to the National Soccer League, the top tier of Australian soccer since 1977. In 1987 APIA won the national championship, six points ahead of the Preston Makedonia Soccer", "id": "17492652" }, { "contents": "Ante Moric\n\n\nAnte Tomislav Moric (born 19 April 1974) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Leagues Victoria side Dandenong City SC. Moric played at club level in Australia and Croatia for St. George, AIS, Sydney United, Zadar, Canberra Cosmos, Sydney Olympic, Fraser Park, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Rockdale City Suns. He also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After a stint with the youth side of National Premier Leagues NSW 2 side St George", "id": "5169013" }, { "contents": "John May (Australian footballer)\n\n\nJohn May (born 15 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). May was recruited to play for Essendon's under-19s from West Coburg in the Essendon District Football League. In 1970, his second season with the under-19s, he was named captain and also played several matches in the reserves before making his senior VFL debut late in the season. He kicked one goal from his three games playing as a midfielder and stayed with Essendon for another year, but", "id": "16685305" }, { "contents": "Andrew Fox (footballer)\n\n\nAndrew Thomas Philip Fox (born 15 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fox began his playing career during his time at university, playing football in the USA for 4 years with St. Edward's University Soccer Team. After a short spell at Texan club Midland/Odessa Sockers, Fox moved back to England in July 2015, where he joined League One side Peterborough United on a free transfer. He joined National League side Kidderminster Harriers on loan", "id": "3891979" }, { "contents": "Petar Franjic\n\n\nPetar Franjic (born 7 April 1992) is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Avondale FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Franjic joined the Melbourne Knights FC under 21 squad in 2009 after spending a number of years with the Victorian Institute of Sport. That year, he made his breakthrough into senior football, making six appearances for the first team in the Victorian Premier League in the first half of the season. He was then picked up by A-League side Melbourne Victory FC, initially with the youth team.", "id": "1076969" }, { "contents": "Jacob Burns (soccer)\n\n\nJacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory. Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay. His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October", "id": "5439205" }, { "contents": "Zander Diamond\n\n\nAlexander Kevin \"Zander\" Diamond (born 12 March 1985) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He began his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen, before moving to Oldham Athletic in 2011; he later played for Burton Albion, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town in England. He won eleven caps for Scotland under-21s. Raised in the west of Scotland in Dumbarton, Alexandria-born Diamond graduated from the youth team at Aberdeen in his first full season and made his League debut against Dundee", "id": "20263817" }, { "contents": "Hilton Kotzur\n\n\nHilton Kotzur (born 20 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kotzur represented New South Wales as a junior, but was also a member of the Victorian team which won the 1981 Teal Cup, earning All-Australian honours He joined the Swans when they were still based in Melbourne and played both Under-19s and reserves football for the club, before he fractured two vertebrae in 1982. The back injury stalled his career and it was not until", "id": "20658877" }, { "contents": "Christopher Forrester\n\n\nChristopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland Premier Division. He has also previously played for Bohemians, Peterborough United, Aberdeen and the Republic of Ireland under-21's. In March 2016 he was called up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad but has yet to be capped. Forrester started his schoolboy career with his local team, Smithfield, where he stayed for three seasons. He played for Bohemians for three seasons before", "id": "3737210" }, { "contents": "James Meyer (footballer)\n\n\nJames Meyer (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Queensland club Brisbane City. Born in Sydney, Meyer started his youth career with Brisbane City FC in 2005. The following year Meyer went to Europe and signed on as a youth player for Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and then Hertha BSC of Germany the next year. He then returned to Australia in 2008 to play for Olympic FC of the Queensland State League before joining Eastern Suburbs F.C. of the Brisbane Premier League", "id": "21300581" }, { "contents": "Billy Ions\n\n\nRooney and Spanish forward Fernando Torres to whom he compared himself to. Ions first started playing football in the youth team of the local village of Valle de San Lorenzo in Tenerife, named \"Constanza\". Years later he started to play in the football school of Juan Miguel. At the age of 15, Ions joined the youth setup at CD Tenerife. In February 2010, he returned to England to join Newcastle United, the club he supported as a child. He made his Under-18's debut in a home match against", "id": "2185330" }, { "contents": "Jason Geria\n\n\nJason Kato Geria (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for JEF United Chiba in the J2 League and for the Australia national team. Born in Canberra, Geria played youth football with the Australian Institute of Sport and Brisbane Roar youth before joining Melbourne Victory in 2012, where he made his professional debut and played for five years. Geria was born in Canberra to Ugandan parents. Geria's first youth club was Weston Creek SC in Canberra. He also played in", "id": "13593993" }, { "contents": "Vincent Bezecourt\n\n\nVincent Bezecourt (born 10 June 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Bezecourt began his football career in France with Jeunesse Villenavaise and made his debut with the first team during the 2012 season in Championnat de France amateur. In two season with the first team, he appeared in 52 league matches scoring 9 goals. In 2014, he went to the United States to play College soccer for St. Francis Brooklyn under head coach Tom Giovatto. In his first", "id": "7942392" }, { "contents": "Oliver Puflett\n\n\nOliver Puflett (born 26 July 1999) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a striker for S.League club Home United. Puflett started his career with the Western Sydney Wanderers FC, playing for its Under-21 team, scoring 5 goals in 11 games over 2 years. He also won the Y-League title in the 2017-18 season with them. He played for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC Under-21 squad before signing his first professional contract and joining Singapore Premier League side Home United FC in March 2019. He then made", "id": "9045653" }, { "contents": "Massimo Luongo\n\n\nMassimo Corey Luongo ( ; born 25 September 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Queens Park Rangers and the Australian national team. Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Queens Park Rangers in 2015. Luongo has played for the Australia", "id": "15251787" }, { "contents": "Graham Moss\n\n\nGraham Moss (born 14 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who was highly successful in both the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a Brownlow Medal-winning ruckman and played 343 senior games in the WAFL and VFL. Moss debuted for Claremont Football Club in the WAFL in 1969. In 1970, he made his debut for the Western Australian state team. Essendon attempted to lure him to Melbourne several times, and finally succeeded before the", "id": "15698753" }, { "contents": "Luke Power\n\n\nLuke Power (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). A member of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premiership winning teams, he played 282 games for the Lions before moving to Greater Western Sydney where he played his final season. He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Giants. Power debuted for the Lions as an 18-year-old in 1998, and he has", "id": "12553548" }, { "contents": "Robert Ironside (footballer)\n\n\nRobert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His club career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Sydney Olympic in the Australian National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to Newcastle Breakers He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle Ironside made his All White debut in a 1-1", "id": "19673589" }, { "contents": "James Jeggo\n\n\nJames Alexander Jeggo ( ; born 12 February 1992) is an Austrian-born Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a central midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and the Australian national team. Born in Vienna, Austria, Jeggo moved to Australia as a child, where he started his footballing career in youth football with Green Gully and at the Victorian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Melbourne Victory. Jeggo was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Australia as a child, growing", "id": "5614644" }, { "contents": "Jason Trifiro\n\n\nJason Trifiro (born 3 June 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Nunawading City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. Trifiro started his career in the semi-professional lower leagues in Australia, playing in New South Wales for National Premier Leagues NSW clubs Marconi Stallions, APIA Leichhardt and the South Coast Wolves. In 2011, he moved to Victoria where he played the 2011 Victorian Premier League with Northcote alongside his brother, before they both moved to ex-NSL heavyweight South Melbourne in the National", "id": "7283672" }, { "contents": "Stephen Glass (footballer)\n\n\nStephen Glass (born 23 May 1976) is a former Scottish professional footballer who is the current head coach of Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship. A midfielder, Glass started his career at Aberdeen, with whom he won the 1995 Scottish League Cup. In 1998, he moved to England, transferring to Newcastle United of the Premier League. Shortly after joining Newcastle, Glass made an appearance for the Scotland national football team. He joined Watford in the First Division in 2001, before returning to Scotland in 2003 with Hibernian", "id": "19685891" }, { "contents": "Stephen O'Donnell (footballer, born 1983)\n\n\nStephen James O'Donnell (born 10 July 1983) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career with Dundee United, making his debut in 2002. He spent time on loan with Ross County before leaving Dundee United in 2005 to play briefly in England with Boston United. Returning to Scottish football, O'Donnell had spells with Clyde and St Mirren before joining Dundee in 2010, where he later became club captain. He rejoined Clyde in 2014 and left the club in 2015. He was a Scotland under-20 international", "id": "10873501" }, { "contents": "Brian Robinson (soccer)\n\n\nBrian Robinson (born 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He started playing at the age of ten with the Evening Optimist Club in his home town and later starred in the Victoria High School team that reached the B.C. High School final in 1966. At 17 he was playing for Vic West in the Victoria City League where he played for two years before joining Victoria United in the Pacific Coast League. By 1970 he was playing in the Western Canada Soccer League", "id": "11330905" }, { "contents": "Daniel McBreen\n\n\nDaniel James McBreen (born 23 April 1977) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW club Edgeworth, and is a coach with Newcastle Jets U15. Born in England, McBreen moved to Australia with his family when he was six weeks old and started his career in local football with Toronto Awaba Stags and Edgeworth Eagles. He earned a professional contract with National Soccer League club Newcastle United in 2000, where he played for two seasons before joining Universitatea Craiova of the Romanian Divizia A.", "id": "9649312" }, { "contents": "Tomislav Uskok\n\n\nTomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney United in the National Premier Leagues. Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club Melbourne Knights. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined Victorian State League Division 1 side St Albans Saints for the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014", "id": "8367993" }, { "contents": "Austin Berry (soccer)\n\n\nthe newly-formed club FC Cincinnati in the lower division United Soccer League. He served as FC Cincinnati's team captain for two seasons before retiring from his playing career and accepting a position as the club's strength and conditioning coach. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended the Summit Country Day School for high school where he played four fall seasons of soccer. With a 14–1–1 record during his senior year, Berry contributed 10 goals, 6 assists, and led his team to the Regional finals. He earned first team", "id": "19581628" }, { "contents": "Gary Smith (footballer, born 1968)\n\n\nGary Neil Smith (born 3 December 1968) is an English former footballer. He is currently Head Coach & Technical Director of Nashville SC in the United Soccer League, the second tier in the US soccer pyramid. Smith's playing career began at Fulham, progressing through the youth team before making one first-team appearance for the club. After a brief spell with Colchester United, Smith joined non-league side Enfield in 1989. His most successful spell during his playing days was at Wycombe Wanderers, spending two seasons with", "id": "686418" }, { "contents": "Lee Scroggins\n\n\nLeepaul Scroggins (born 23 October 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for South Shields. Scroggins began his career with Darlington, but moved on to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Blyth Spartans in 2001 without having played for Darlington's first team. He spent just over a year with Spartans, before joining Whitley Bay of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. Scroggins then moved to the United States, where he had a successful college soccer career at Lynn University, graduating in Sports Recreation", "id": "8969031" }, { "contents": "Brad Smith (footballer, born 1948)\n\n\nBrad R. Smith (born 3 December 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also had a long career in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) where he played for East Perth and coached East Fremantle. Smith was a late comer to VFL football as he had spent eight years at East Perth before joining North Melbourne. He was a member of East Perth's 1972 and 1978 premiership teams and a back pocket player in", "id": "8985200" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Dunne (footballer, born 1997)\n\n\nJames Gerard Dunne (born 19 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Burnley. Dunne played locally in Ireland before joining the youth set-up at Manchester United in 2007. After transferring to Burnley in 2016, he spent time on loan at Barrow (where he made his senior debut in August 2017) and Accrington Stanley (where he made his Football League debut in January 2018). Born in Dundalk Dunne began his career with St Kevin's Boys Club before joining the Manchester", "id": "18334762" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\na Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Ayr United at Hampden Park. During the 2013–14 season, Rooney made 11 appearances for Queen's Park. His breakthrough season came in 2014–15, when he played in 30 matches, scoring his first goal on 15 November 2014 with a header against Elgin City in a 4–1 win. Rooney's impressive performances for Queen's Park saw him awarded the club's Young Player of the Year and also being named in the PFA Scotland Scottish League Two Team of the Year. The start of 2015–16 saw Rooney", "id": "16210766" }, { "contents": "Jonas Salley\n\n\nGyawe Jonas Salley (born 16 March 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a former Ivorian-Australian footballer, who last played for Hohhot Zhongyou in China League One. He is currently an assistant coach for Qingdao Red Lions. Salley moved to Australia to escape from the civil and government problems of his home country in 2006. He first played at Mill Park Soccer Club, where his outstanding performances were noticed within a very short time. He was eventually signed up to play with Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne. He was then", "id": "20136861" }, { "contents": "Alan Green (soccer)\n\n\nAlan Green (born 1 January 1954) is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Green, a native of Worcester, England, began his professional career with Coventry City. He joined the club as a striker in 1970, but did not make his first team debut until April 22, 1972, which was", "id": "15514446" }, { "contents": "Tommy Kelly (footballer)\n\n\nTommy Kelly was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A dynamic midfielder, he is quite simply a Bohemian F.C. legend, his career at Dalymount Park spanning 3 different decades. He appeared in a club record 19 games in European competition and won 2 League of Ireland titles. He joined Bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the \"B\" team. He made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over Drogheda on April 10, 1966.", "id": "14451234" }, { "contents": "Kevin Egan\n\n\nKevin Egan (born 10 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and played in Essendon's 1965 premiership team. Egan was used mostly as a rover and wingman. After leaving Essendon Egan spent some time at both South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide and the Victorian", "id": "1551420" }, { "contents": "Kenny Hill (association footballer)\n\n\nKenneth George Hill (born 7 March 1953) is an English former association football defender who played professionally in England and the North American Soccer League. In 1971, he joined Gillingham, playing 125 league matches before leaving the team for the United States in 1974. That year, he signed with the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He also played for Maidstone United, where he began his career, Lincoln City, with whom he made a single appearance in", "id": "347314" }, { "contents": "Ray Farningham\n\n\nRay Farningham (born 10 April 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder for a handful of Scottish clubs. He previously managed Forfar Athletic, Montrose and was the assistant manager of Dundee. Ray is now assistant manager at junior side Lochee United F.C. Farningham trained as a youth with Dundee United before beginning his senior career with Forfar Athletic, making his debut towards the end of the 1970s. In his seven years at Station Park, Farningham was part of the sides which won the 1983–84 Scottish Second", "id": "3703221" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Kirk\n\n\nJames Kirk (born 12 November 1925) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Bury, Colchester United, Torquay United and Aldershot. Born in Tarbolton, Kirk began his career in Scotland with St Mirren, where he made 86 league appearances for the club, before moving to England to play for Bury, where he featured in 79 Football League matches. Kirk joined Colchester United in 1954 and spent one season with the club, making his", "id": "21920041" }, { "contents": "Gary Crouch\n\n\nGary Crouch (born 27 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After leaving Essendon, Crouch played for Rochester for one season before moving to Western Australia and joining Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He spent four seasons with Subiaco, playing on half back flank in the 1973 WAFL winning Grand Final team. He then moved back to Victoria to the Bendigo Football League (BFL). Crouch played one season with South Bendigo and", "id": "16878056" }, { "contents": "Neil Jenkins (footballer)\n\n\nNeil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Leatherhead F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team. Born in Carshalton, London, Jenkins joined the Essex based team Southend United in July 2002, on a one", "id": "9293884" }, { "contents": "John Reilly (footballer, born 1962)\n\n\nJohn Reilly (born 21 March 1962 in Dundee) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Reilly began his career with Dundee United, signing as a schoolboy from Strathtay Boys Club in 1979. He played for the Scotland Under 17 and Under 18 professional youth sides before making his first team debut in August 1980. He was a member of the squad that won a Premier League Winners medal in season 1982–1983 before going onto score the club's first ever goal in the European Cup the following season. Signing", "id": "10817319" } ]

[ { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nJames Rooney (born 10 December 1945 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former association football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 FIFA World Cup squad in West Germany. Rooney was a left winger who played first team football with Lochee United, Peterborough United and Montrose F.C. in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1960s. He was an instant success there with Ukrainian Essendon Lions before transferring to Sydney to join the Prague club in 1970, and later playing at APIA Leichhardt, in", "id": "318576" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\n1974 FIFA World Cup campaign, earning himself many admirers for his hard tackling and ball distribution. The Jimmy Rooney Medal, awarded from 1992 onwards to the man of the match in the Victorian Premier League Grand Final, was named in his honour. He has recently settled to a managerial role of Victorian senior team, Eastern Lions, and also hosts a junior training program. He is also currently the head coach of the first eleven soccer team at St Kevin's College, Melbourne, Australia. In his second season in charge", "id": "318578" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nthe New South Wales First Division. In 1977, with APIA not joining the newly formed National Soccer League, Rooney joined Marconi Fairfield for two seasons, before moving back to Victoria where he played with Fitzroy Alexander and Croydon City Arrows. He made his Australian debut against a England XI in 1971, going on play 57 times for his country (although he also accrued caps in \"B\" team fixtures, bringing the total to 102) in a career spanning a decade. He was Australia's first choice midfielder in the", "id": "318577" }, { "contents": "Ronald Chitiyo\n\n\nRonald Chitiyo (born 10 June 1992), commonly known as Rooney, is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national team. Chitiyo, son of former footballer Frank Chitiyo, began his senior career with Douglas Warriors. Two years later, he would leave to join Monomotapa United, during his time with Monomotapa he finished as second runner-up in the 2012 Soccer Star of the Year award. In 2013, Chitiyo had trials at South African Premier Soccer League", "id": "230018" }, { "contents": "Jim Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nJim Rooney (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional soccer player who played as both a midfielder and a striker. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Soccer League team Boca Raton FC. Jim Rooney was born in The Bronx, New York City. Rooney played college soccer at Fordham University and C.W. Post. At C.W. Post, he played with the Pioneers. He currently holds the school's record for most goals in a single season: 21. Rooney began his professional career in 1994 with", "id": "327338" }, { "contents": "Wayne Rooney\n\n\nWayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles. He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United. At club level, he has won every honour available in English, European and Continental football, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup. Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the", "id": "20357111" }, { "contents": "Mark Rooney\n\n\nMark Rooney (born 13 December 1983) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker. He is the elder brother of Adam Rooney. Rooney began his senior career at Dublin City before joining UCD in 2003 where he broke into the Student's first team. Rooney only stayed at Belfield Park for one season before joining his former manager at UCD, Paul Doolin at Drogheda United in 2004. Despite a difficult season for him personally, only scoring one league goal in 22 appearances, Rooney was part of the Drogheda United", "id": "21841504" }, { "contents": "Bobby Rooney\n\n\nRobert Rooney (8 July 1938 – 9 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who made 47 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City. He played as a winger. Rooney was born in Cowie, Stirling, and began his football career with Clydebank Juniors in his native Scotland before joining English Second Division club Sheffield United in 1958. He played occasionally in his first two seasons with the club, but not thereafter. In the 1962–63 season, he was registered with three clubs:", "id": "776620" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Gabriel\n\n\nJames Gabriel (born 10 October 1940) is a Scottish former football midfielder, who earned two caps with the Scotland national football team. Chiefly associated with English club Everton, Gabriel played extensively in Scotland and England before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach in both England and the USA, where he lives today. Jimmy Gabriel first came to the attention of Dundee when he played at right-half for the Scotland under-15 schoolboys in an international at Dens Park.", "id": "5028700" }, { "contents": "Con Boutsianis\n\n\nConstantinos \"Con\" Boutsianis (born 27 December 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former international, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Boutsianis began his career with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in 1989, and soon established himself as a goalscoring midfielder. He left South at the end of the 1994/95 season to join Heidelberg United for the 1996 Victorian Premier League season, before joining Collingwood Warriors for their one and only season in the NSL. Following the club's demise at", "id": "4070407" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\nSteven Laurie (born 30 October 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who played as a defender. He played in England with West Ham United's youth academy and Peterborough United, before returning to Australia to play for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League and Sydney FC in the A-League. He is currently the head manager of Geelong SC. Steve Laurie started his professional youth career with the Victorian Institute of Sport, spending a year at the academy in 1997", "id": "21322154" }, { "contents": "David Jones (footballer, born 1955)\n\n\nDavid Jones (born 1 April 1955 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian former soccer player and coach. Jones played his junior soccer for Kwinana United before graduating to the senior team in 1970. He remained with the club until the end of the 1975 season, where he won the Rothmans Gold Medal award for the season's fairest and best player. In 1976 Jones played for East Fremantle Tricolore. In the first year of the National Soccer League in 1977 he played for West Adelaide and was part of the club", "id": "12543554" }, { "contents": "Luke Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nLuke William Rooney (born 28 December 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and is a free agent after leaving his most recent club, Welling United. Born in Bermondsey, London, Rooney joined Gillingham as an apprentice professional in 2007. He forced his way into the first team squad in early December 2008 and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup second round replay at Stockport County. In early 2009 he was loaned out to Lewes of the Conference National, where he made six appearances. He turned", "id": "6731049" }, { "contents": "Preston Lions FC\n\n\nthe Year Bill Fleming Medal – Media voted VPL Player of the Year Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year Victorian Premier League Under 21 Player of the Year Jimmy Rooney Medal – VPL Grand Final Man of the Match Weinstein Medal Junior Player of the Year Australian Representatives – Senior Level National Representatives – Youth Team Victorian State Representatives – Senior Level ● Preston Makedonia Inaugural season *Victorian Provisional League* 1959 - 4th - 10 Teams in League. ● Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2", "id": "19353574" }, { "contents": "Bob Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nRobert “Bob” Rooney was a U.S. soccer center forward who spent his playing career in the St. Louis leagues. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957. Rooney grew up in the Dogtown area of St. Louis, attending St. James Grade School and St. Louis University High School. As a youth, he played both football and baseball in addition to soccer spending five seasons with a St. Louis Cardinals farm team. Even while playing in the local St. Louis soccer leagues, Rooney earned a living as a", "id": "2939914" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\n, before moving to England, joining the youth academy of West Ham United F.C. in 1998. Laurie remained with the Hammers academy until 2002, then moving to Peterborough United F.C.. He returned to Australia after being lured back by former Rangers F.C. player and then coach Stuart Munro to play for National Soccer League powerhouse South Melbourne FC in the last season of the NSL. Laurie was one of the first six signings for the newly formed Hyundai A-League club Sydney FC, although later he was released from his contract via mutual", "id": "21322155" }, { "contents": "William McLachlan (footballer)\n\n\nWilliam McLachlan (born 19 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Airdrie United and for Australian club Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. McLachlan began his career with Rangers and appeared for the Scotland U-16 team in a Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland in October 2004. In December 2008, he joined Airdrie United on loan. He made his debut against St Johnstone on 20 December.", "id": "18351658" }, { "contents": "Joe Montemurro\n\n\nJoseph Adrian Montemurro (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian former soccer player, currently the manager of Arsenal Women. Montemurro played as a midfielder during his short professional career, mainly in Italy, before returning to Australia to play in the Victorian state leagues. He began coaching in youth football for various Victorian clubs, before his first managerial role with Sunshine George Cross, and then later, Coburg United. His first job abroad came in 2013, spending four months as the inaugural manager of Papa New Guinean side Port Moresby", "id": "14957118" }, { "contents": "Tommy Rooney\n\n\nTommy Rooney (born 30 December 1984) is an English footballer who played for League Two club Macclesfield Town during the 2004–05 season as a striker and later played non-league football for Vauxhall Motors. Tommy, who is the cousin of Wayne, John and Graeme Rooney, began his career at Tranmere Rovers, where he played in the youth and reserve sides but did not break into the first-team. He joined League Two club Macclesfield Town in May 2004 on a one-year contract and made two league and cup", "id": "9458597" }, { "contents": "Steven Weir\n\n\nSteven Weir (born 3 October 1988) is a Scottish Junior footballer who plays as a striker for West of Scotland Super League Premier Division club Arthurlie. Born in Harthill, Scotland, he started his career with Livingston, where he also spent a spell on loan at Cowdenbeath. He joined Arbroath before moving to Australia where he played for North Eastern Soccer League side, Shepparton South. He scored 28 goals in 12 games in his first season with the club, and played his first match for the team four hours after arriving", "id": "18510479" }, { "contents": "Jimmy McDonnell\n\n\nJames McDonnell (1927 – 30 September 2017) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team spanned three decades from 1948 until 1960. Born in Darver, County Louth, McDonnell first played competitive Gaelic football with the Darver Volunteers club. He won a junior league medal in 1952 before winning a county junior championship medal in 1956. From 1961 onward McDonnell played with the newly-formed St. Joseph's club. McDonnell made his debut with the Louth senior team during", "id": "4115167" }, { "contents": "Sean Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nSean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the", "id": "16687041" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)\n\n\nJames E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee, and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock. Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928. In a five-and-a-half-year career with", "id": "9343677" }, { "contents": "Dylan Murnane\n\n\nDylan Murnane (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a left back for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. In 2012, Murnane was a member of the Port Melbourne SC side that won promotion to the Victorian Premier League and reached the final of the State Knockout Cup, before he was recruited by the Melbourne Victory Youth team. After initially joining the club as member of the youth team in late 2012, Murnane made his professional debut with home town giants Melbourne Victory against Sydney", "id": "12515687" }, { "contents": "Jim Tansey\n\n\nJim Tansey (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian former association football player. The son of Everton footballer Jimmy Tansey, Tansey was born in Liverpool, England in 1953. He emigrated to Australia in 1974. Tansey began his senior playing career for South Liverpool F.C.. After moving to Australia, he played for Slavia Melbourne in the Victorian State League. With the start of the National Soccer League (NSL), Tansey moved to Fitzroy United Alexander. He later played for NSL club Footscray JUST. Between 1975 and 1981", "id": "10339389" }, { "contents": "Ray McKinnon (footballer)\n\n\nRaymond McKinnon (born 5 August 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the manager of Falkirk. As a player, McKinnon was a midfielder whose clubs included Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Aberdeen, Livingston, Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also represented the Scotland under-21 team. McKinnon began his managerial career in junior football with Lochee United before managing senior clubs Brechin City, Raith Rovers, Dundee United, Morton and left just three months later for Falkirk. McKinnon was born in Dundee on 5 August", "id": "4406705" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Douglas (Canadian soccer)\n\n\nJimmy Douglas (born October 6, 1948 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish-Canadian soccer midfielder and head coach. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League and earned fourteen caps for the Canadian national soccer team. Born in Scotland, Douglas moved to Canada in 1964 when he was sixteen. He almost immediately began playing for St. Catharines Heidelberg in the National Soccer League and by 1970 was in the first team. In 1974, he played in the North American Soccer League with the Toronto Metros before returning", "id": "12329068" }, { "contents": "Gary Hasler\n\n\nGary Hasler (born 5 May 1970) is an Australian former association football player. he played in the National Soccer League for Sunshine George Cross and South Melbourne. In international football, he made two appearances for Australia and also represented the country at the 1992 Olympics. Hasler joined Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League in 1989. In 1992, he joined South Melbourne. After two seasons he moved to Heidelberg in the Victorian Premier League. Hasler was a member of the Australian squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In", "id": "18353802" }, { "contents": "Sebastian Ryall\n\n\nSebastian \"Seb\" Ryall (born 18 July 1989) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender, most recently for Sydney FC. Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Football Club in Sydney. Ryall later played for the AIS in the Victorian Premier League before signing for Melbourne Victory on a 2-year contract in August 2007. He made his first appearance for the club in their round 3 match against Adelaide United and played in their Grand Final win over Adelaide in March 2009. In April 2009", "id": "1237851" }, { "contents": "Cameron Watson (footballer)\n\n\nCameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side Moreland Zebras FC. Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move", "id": "15681415" }, { "contents": "Jack Ross (footballer, born 1976)\n\n\nJohn James Ross (born 5 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the manager of English League One club Sunderland. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He", "id": "9812399" }, { "contents": "Jesse Daley\n\n\nJesse Daley (born 16 October 1997) is an Australian soccer player who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship. Daley spent time at Queensland Academy of Sport, before playing with the youth team at Brisbane Roar, before spending time with Melbourne Victory following his release from the club, before again playing with Brisbane Roar. Daley joined National Premier Leagues Victoria side South Melbourne FC ahead of their 2017 season. He left the club in January 2018, joining National Premier League side Lions FC. Following a trial, Daley", "id": "13637473" }, { "contents": "Steven Pace\n\n\nSteven Pace (born 6 March 1983) is an Australian footballer who plays for Heidelberg United FC. Earlier in his career, Pace played for various Victorian teams, including South Melbourne, Essendon Royals and the Preston Lions. He has been described as a \"utility\" player, having played as a midfielder as well as a central defender. He played in the latter position for the Preston Lions in their successful 2007 campaign, when they won the Victorian Premier League Championship. When the Melbourne Victory signed Pace in October 2007,", "id": "2478195" }, { "contents": "Evans Rusike\n\n\nEvans Rusike (born 13 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for Premier Soccer League side Supersport United in South Africa. He also plays for the Zimbabwe national team. Rusike began his career in Zimbabwe with Kiglon in 2010, before moving to Zimbabwe Saints in 2012. Three years later, in 2015, he left his homeland for the first time as he agreed to join South African Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United. His league debut came on 22 August against Ajax Cape Town. At the end", "id": "8298403" }, { "contents": "Tarek Elrich\n\n\nTarek Elrich (born 1 January 1987) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a right back and midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League. Elrich was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his senior career with Sydney Olympic, before moving to Newcastle Jets in 2006. In 2012, he moved to new club Western Sydney Wanderers before moving again to Adelaide United one season later. Tarek played youth football for Australia, before being called up to the Lebanon national team in 2012.", "id": "21014072" }, { "contents": "Dominic Smith (footballer)\n\n\nDominic Rooney Smith (born 22 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Northern Premier League North Division side Droylsden. He began his career with Crewe Alexandra, where he progressed through the club's Academy, but failed to make a first team appearance. He joined Colchester United in 2014, where he made his Football League debut in September 2014. He had a brief loan spell at A.F.C. Hornchurch, before leaving Colchester after the expiry of his one-year deal. He has since represented numerous Northern", "id": "18972781" }, { "contents": "Dave Harding\n\n\nDavid Harding (born 14 August 1946) is a former football (soccer) midfielder. He played for Wrexham from 1965 to 1966, then South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, before moving to Australia where he played for Pan Hellenic, Western Suburbs, Blacktown City and APIA until 1981. In this time he won NSW representative honours in 1974 against Bristol Rovers. Harding was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany and represented Australia 45 times between 1974 and 1977 scoring 11 times. More recently he", "id": "3031486" }, { "contents": "George Howard (footballer)\n\n\nGeorge Howard (born 8 October 1996) is an English-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker. George Howard moved to Australia with his family aged 1 or 15 from England where he had participated in the Sheffield United Academy, and was playing senior football for then fourth tier Victorian State League Division 1 side Eastern Lions by age 16. Howard joined National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 club Box Hill United in 2014, and was recruited to the Melbourne Victory Youth squad by Darren Davies in 2015. He trialled with the", "id": "12301976" }, { "contents": "George Slifkas\n\n\nGeorge Slifkas (born 18 October 1969) is an Australian former association football player. Slifkas played for Preston Makedonia, Heidelberg United and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s he dropped down to the Victorian Premier League where he played for the Bulleen Lions, the Thomastown Zebras and the Melbourne Raiders. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Slifkas played four matches as Australia placed fourth. In 1993 Slifkas made his first and only international appearance for Australia as a substitute in a match against", "id": "18566415" }, { "contents": "Luciano Trani\n\n\nLuciano Trani (born 10 August 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former football (soccer) player who was most recently the manager of National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side North Geelong Warriors FC. Trani began coaching at the Victorian Premier League and National Soccer League levels with the Fawkner Blues, Essendon Royals, Whittlesea Stallions, Brisbane Strikers and the Melbourne Knights. He then took up roles as a coaching instructor for Football Federation Victoria and Head Coach of Pascoe Vale FC, before joining Wellington Phoenix. He then transferred to", "id": "3270514" }, { "contents": "Touk Miller\n\n\n. Such was his talent, he was selected to represent the under 15 Victorian state cricket team at the national championships in March 2011 and made his first XI debut for the North Melbourne Cricket Club at the Junction Oval in December 2011 before electing to focus on football the following year. Miller played all of his junior years with the Maribyrnong Park Lions in the Essendon District Football League and made his senior debut for the club in 2011 at the age of 15. He played junior football for both St Kevin's College in the", "id": "17982973" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Bullard\n\n\nJames Richard Bullard (born 23 October 1978) is an English former footballer, coach and television presenter. He is currently co-host of the Saturday morning Sky TV show Soccer AM. As a player he was a midfielder and played youth football at West Ham United before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet in 1998. Two seasons at Peterborough United was followed by a spell at Wigan Athletic where he scored ten goals in 145 league appearances, helping them to their first promotion to the Premier League. Bullard was known for being a", "id": "8289895" }, { "contents": "Kieran Dover\n\n\nKieran Dover is an Australian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Green Gully in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. From Stockton-on-Tees, Dover started his career at the youth team of Sunderland before moving to Australia at the age of twelve, where he joined the youth ranks at Berwick City. He then eventually went on to join Dandenong Thunder of the NPL Victoria where he was named Winning Edge Presentations Rising Star of the Month in August. He also played for the Melbourne Victory youth sides in", "id": "8333803" }, { "contents": "Andrew Robertson\n\n\nAndrew Robertson (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. Robertson began his senior career with Queen's Park in 2012 before joining Dundee United a year later. His form in his first season as a professional led to him being named SPFA Young Player of the Year and also making his international debut. He joined Hull City in July 2014 for a fee of £2.85 million, before joining Liverpool in July 2017 for an", "id": "17961904" }, { "contents": "Steve Hayward\n\n\nSteve Hayward (born 8 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder in a sixteen-year career spanning from 1988 to 2004. Born in Pelsall near Walsall, Hayward began his career with Derby County and made his League debut in 1990, but found first-team opportunities limited. He joined Carlisle United in 1994 and won two promotions from Division Three and the 1997 Football League Trophy Final during his time at the club before moving to Fulham in 1997. He played a role in Fulham", "id": "6088205" }, { "contents": "Vince Lia\n\n\nVince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Adelaide United in the A-League. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior debut with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League. He spent one season with Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues in 2005 before joining Melbourne Victory in 2005 to play in the newly-formed A-League. Lia next spent a decade at Wellington Phoenix, making over 200 appearances for the club in all competitions. He", "id": "5478442" }, { "contents": "Peter Stone (footballer)\n\n\nPeter Stone (born 30 September 1954) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Stone played his junior football for Adamstown before playing for Western Suburbs in the New South Wales state league (1973–1976) and the National Soccer League (1977). In 1978, he moved to APIA Leichhardt, where he played three NSL seasons. Stone moved to St. George in 1980 where he played two seasons. Stone made his international debut for Australia in 1976 against Hong Kong. He also played over in England for Tottenham Hotspur", "id": "5877228" }, { "contents": "Sean Cranney\n\n\nSean Cranney (born 2 October 1973) is an Australian former association football player. Cranney played for Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club before joining Brisbane United in the Queensland state league in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was signed to National Soccer League team Brisbane Strikers. At the Strikers he played five seasons before moving to Northern Spirit for the 1990/2000 season. Cranney played for Australia at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Cranney made his full international debut in November 1996 for Australia in an OFC Nations Cup match against New", "id": "18125994" }, { "contents": "Derek Spalding\n\n\nDerek Spalding (born 20 December 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former soccer player, who played as a defender. Spalding played for Hibernian in the Scottish Football League until he emigrated to the United States in 1977. He then played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least two in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the US national team, in 1982. Growing up in Scotland, Spalding signed with First Division club Hibernian as a youth player. He worked his way", "id": "11180604" }, { "contents": "Ross Barkley\n\n\n23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 but did not appear in any of England's matches. Managers and teammates have compared his style of play to those of Michael Ballack, Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Barkley was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. He joined Everton as an 11-year-old and played for the club's youth teams. He was named as a substitute in a first team league match in early 2010–11, and was expected to make his Premier League debut before his leg was broken in one place after a collision with", "id": "7578236" }, { "contents": "Erick Chipeta\n\n\nErick Chipeta (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Zimbabwe national team. Chipeta started his career in Zimbabwe with Hwange Colliery, where he remained for two years before leaving his homeland for South Africa for the first time. 2014 saw Chipeta join newly promoted Premier Soccer League side Chippa United. He made his debut for Chippa in a 1–1 draw at home to Mamelodi Sundowns on 22 October. In total he made 18 appearances and scored 1 goal in his first season", "id": "6134269" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\nShaun Antony Rooney (born 26 July 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Rooney has previously played for Queen's Park, Dunfermline Athletic, York City and Queen of the South. Rooney was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. Rooney started his career playing youth football with Bellshill Boys Club and Dundee United, before signing with Scottish League Two club Queen's Park in July 2013. Rooney's first-team debut came shortly after signing for the club, in", "id": "16210765" }, { "contents": "Robert Trajkovski\n\n\nRobert Trajkovski (born 24 July 1972) is an Australian former footballer. Trajkovski began his senior career with Altona before moving to National Soccer League team Melbourne City. After a season with Melbourne City Trajkovski transferred to Sydney United. He played two season for United between 1995 and 1997. In the 1997/98 season Trajkovski played for Carlton, playing 22 matches. Trajkovski moved to Perth Glory for the 1998/99 season. After playing 73 matches over three seasons for the Glory he moved to Northern Spirit where he saw out his top flight career", "id": "5112927" }, { "contents": "Sasa Macura\n\n\nSasa Macura is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Manly United in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Macura played youth football for Northern Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Bonnyrigg White Eagles before moving to Hungary. There, he made his professional debut for MTK Budapest as well as playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II for MTK's reserve team and Szigetszentmiklósi. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for Blacktown City. He moved to Manly United in 2017. Macura was born in", "id": "14725944" }, { "contents": "Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)\n\n\nPhilip Anthony Jones (born 21 February 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Manchester United and the English national team. Before joining Manchester United, Jones played for Blackburn Rovers at both youth and senior levels. Although primarily a centre-back, he has also been used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Jones has represented England at various levels and is currently a member of the England senior squad. He played for the under-19 team in 2009 before making his debut for the under-21 team in 2010", "id": "13966664" }, { "contents": "Paul Bilokapic\n\n\nPaul Bilokapic (born 8 August 1976) is an Australian former soccer player. He played as a midfielder. After playing youth football for Yaralla, he moved to Sydney Croatia (later Sydney United) where he played until the end of the 1997–98 National Soccer League season. After two seasons with Northern Spirit FC, he returned to Sydney United, where he played until the end of the 2002–03 National Soccer League season. Bilokapic made his full international debut for Australia in February 1998 in a friendly match against Chile. He made", "id": "10116884" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875)\n\n\nJames Jackson (15 September 1875 – after 1914) was a footballer who played as a full back or at wing half. Jackson's family emigrated from Scotland to Australia where he was raised and where he began his senior football career while still in his early teens. He returned to Scotland in 1893, appearing in Junior football and briefly for Rangers before moving to England to join Newcastle United. Two years later he signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he spent six seasons, captaining the club in its inaugural season in the Football League", "id": "19786821" }, { "contents": "David Carney\n\n\nDavid Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC. Born in Sydney, he began his playing career with the New South Wales Institute of Sport before moving to England to join Everton. Having failed to break into the Everton first team he then moved to Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical in Scotland before returning to his native Australia. After a successful spell with Sydney FC, Carney then returned to England, signing with Sheffield United before", "id": "3576647" }, { "contents": "John Pritchard (footballer)\n\n\nJohn Vincent Pritchard (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Ashton United. Pritchard was in his youth a trainee by Manchester United, before joined in April 2012 to Oldham Athletic. He made his debut for Oldham Athletic on 21 December 2013 in a 2–0 defeat to Colchester United at Boundary Park, he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Adam Rooney. After two seasons was released and joined in August 2014 to FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League", "id": "278653" }, { "contents": "APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC\n\n\nhistory of the club when skipper Jimmy Rooney and centreforward Peter Ollerton, who scored five goals, won 9–1 against Auburn in front of a crowd of 5210 at Wentworth Park, the highest finals result ever. Rooney and Ollerton were also in the team that represented Australia a few months later in its first World Cup participation in Germany. In 1979 APIA was given access to the National Soccer League, the top tier of Australian soccer since 1977. In 1987 APIA won the national championship, six points ahead of the Preston Makedonia Soccer", "id": "17492652" }, { "contents": "Ante Moric\n\n\nAnte Tomislav Moric (born 19 April 1974) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Leagues Victoria side Dandenong City SC. Moric played at club level in Australia and Croatia for St. George, AIS, Sydney United, Zadar, Canberra Cosmos, Sydney Olympic, Fraser Park, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Rockdale City Suns. He also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After a stint with the youth side of National Premier Leagues NSW 2 side St George", "id": "5169013" }, { "contents": "John May (Australian footballer)\n\n\nJohn May (born 15 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). May was recruited to play for Essendon's under-19s from West Coburg in the Essendon District Football League. In 1970, his second season with the under-19s, he was named captain and also played several matches in the reserves before making his senior VFL debut late in the season. He kicked one goal from his three games playing as a midfielder and stayed with Essendon for another year, but", "id": "16685305" }, { "contents": "Andrew Fox (footballer)\n\n\nAndrew Thomas Philip Fox (born 15 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fox began his playing career during his time at university, playing football in the USA for 4 years with St. Edward's University Soccer Team. After a short spell at Texan club Midland/Odessa Sockers, Fox moved back to England in July 2015, where he joined League One side Peterborough United on a free transfer. He joined National League side Kidderminster Harriers on loan", "id": "3891979" }, { "contents": "Petar Franjic\n\n\nPetar Franjic (born 7 April 1992) is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Avondale FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Franjic joined the Melbourne Knights FC under 21 squad in 2009 after spending a number of years with the Victorian Institute of Sport. That year, he made his breakthrough into senior football, making six appearances for the first team in the Victorian Premier League in the first half of the season. He was then picked up by A-League side Melbourne Victory FC, initially with the youth team.", "id": "1076969" }, { "contents": "Jacob Burns (soccer)\n\n\nJacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory. Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay. His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October", "id": "5439205" }, { "contents": "Zander Diamond\n\n\nAlexander Kevin \"Zander\" Diamond (born 12 March 1985) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He began his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen, before moving to Oldham Athletic in 2011; he later played for Burton Albion, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town in England. He won eleven caps for Scotland under-21s. Raised in the west of Scotland in Dumbarton, Alexandria-born Diamond graduated from the youth team at Aberdeen in his first full season and made his League debut against Dundee", "id": "20263817" }, { "contents": "Hilton Kotzur\n\n\nHilton Kotzur (born 20 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kotzur represented New South Wales as a junior, but was also a member of the Victorian team which won the 1981 Teal Cup, earning All-Australian honours He joined the Swans when they were still based in Melbourne and played both Under-19s and reserves football for the club, before he fractured two vertebrae in 1982. The back injury stalled his career and it was not until", "id": "20658877" }, { "contents": "Christopher Forrester\n\n\nChristopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland Premier Division. He has also previously played for Bohemians, Peterborough United, Aberdeen and the Republic of Ireland under-21's. In March 2016 he was called up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad but has yet to be capped. Forrester started his schoolboy career with his local team, Smithfield, where he stayed for three seasons. He played for Bohemians for three seasons before", "id": "3737210" }, { "contents": "James Meyer (footballer)\n\n\nJames Meyer (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Queensland club Brisbane City. Born in Sydney, Meyer started his youth career with Brisbane City FC in 2005. The following year Meyer went to Europe and signed on as a youth player for Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and then Hertha BSC of Germany the next year. He then returned to Australia in 2008 to play for Olympic FC of the Queensland State League before joining Eastern Suburbs F.C. of the Brisbane Premier League", "id": "21300581" }, { "contents": "Billy Ions\n\n\nRooney and Spanish forward Fernando Torres to whom he compared himself to. Ions first started playing football in the youth team of the local village of Valle de San Lorenzo in Tenerife, named \"Constanza\". Years later he started to play in the football school of Juan Miguel. At the age of 15, Ions joined the youth setup at CD Tenerife. In February 2010, he returned to England to join Newcastle United, the club he supported as a child. He made his Under-18's debut in a home match against", "id": "2185330" }, { "contents": "Jason Geria\n\n\nJason Kato Geria (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for JEF United Chiba in the J2 League and for the Australia national team. Born in Canberra, Geria played youth football with the Australian Institute of Sport and Brisbane Roar youth before joining Melbourne Victory in 2012, where he made his professional debut and played for five years. Geria was born in Canberra to Ugandan parents. Geria's first youth club was Weston Creek SC in Canberra. He also played in", "id": "13593993" }, { "contents": "Vincent Bezecourt\n\n\nVincent Bezecourt (born 10 June 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Bezecourt began his football career in France with Jeunesse Villenavaise and made his debut with the first team during the 2012 season in Championnat de France amateur. In two season with the first team, he appeared in 52 league matches scoring 9 goals. In 2014, he went to the United States to play College soccer for St. Francis Brooklyn under head coach Tom Giovatto. In his first", "id": "7942392" }, { "contents": "Oliver Puflett\n\n\nOliver Puflett (born 26 July 1999) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a striker for S.League club Home United. Puflett started his career with the Western Sydney Wanderers FC, playing for its Under-21 team, scoring 5 goals in 11 games over 2 years. He also won the Y-League title in the 2017-18 season with them. He played for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC Under-21 squad before signing his first professional contract and joining Singapore Premier League side Home United FC in March 2019. He then made", "id": "9045653" }, { "contents": "Massimo Luongo\n\n\nMassimo Corey Luongo ( ; born 25 September 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Queens Park Rangers and the Australian national team. Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Queens Park Rangers in 2015. Luongo has played for the Australia", "id": "15251787" }, { "contents": "Graham Moss\n\n\nGraham Moss (born 14 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who was highly successful in both the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a Brownlow Medal-winning ruckman and played 343 senior games in the WAFL and VFL. Moss debuted for Claremont Football Club in the WAFL in 1969. In 1970, he made his debut for the Western Australian state team. Essendon attempted to lure him to Melbourne several times, and finally succeeded before the", "id": "15698753" }, { "contents": "Luke Power\n\n\nLuke Power (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). A member of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premiership winning teams, he played 282 games for the Lions before moving to Greater Western Sydney where he played his final season. He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Giants. Power debuted for the Lions as an 18-year-old in 1998, and he has", "id": "12553548" }, { "contents": "Robert Ironside (footballer)\n\n\nRobert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His club career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Sydney Olympic in the Australian National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to Newcastle Breakers He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle Ironside made his All White debut in a 1-1", "id": "19673589" }, { "contents": "James Jeggo\n\n\nJames Alexander Jeggo ( ; born 12 February 1992) is an Austrian-born Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a central midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and the Australian national team. Born in Vienna, Austria, Jeggo moved to Australia as a child, where he started his footballing career in youth football with Green Gully and at the Victorian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Melbourne Victory. Jeggo was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Australia as a child, growing", "id": "5614644" }, { "contents": "Jason Trifiro\n\n\nJason Trifiro (born 3 June 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Nunawading City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. Trifiro started his career in the semi-professional lower leagues in Australia, playing in New South Wales for National Premier Leagues NSW clubs Marconi Stallions, APIA Leichhardt and the South Coast Wolves. In 2011, he moved to Victoria where he played the 2011 Victorian Premier League with Northcote alongside his brother, before they both moved to ex-NSL heavyweight South Melbourne in the National", "id": "7283672" }, { "contents": "Stephen Glass (footballer)\n\n\nStephen Glass (born 23 May 1976) is a former Scottish professional footballer who is the current head coach of Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship. A midfielder, Glass started his career at Aberdeen, with whom he won the 1995 Scottish League Cup. In 1998, he moved to England, transferring to Newcastle United of the Premier League. Shortly after joining Newcastle, Glass made an appearance for the Scotland national football team. He joined Watford in the First Division in 2001, before returning to Scotland in 2003 with Hibernian", "id": "19685891" }, { "contents": "Stephen O'Donnell (footballer, born 1983)\n\n\nStephen James O'Donnell (born 10 July 1983) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career with Dundee United, making his debut in 2002. He spent time on loan with Ross County before leaving Dundee United in 2005 to play briefly in England with Boston United. Returning to Scottish football, O'Donnell had spells with Clyde and St Mirren before joining Dundee in 2010, where he later became club captain. He rejoined Clyde in 2014 and left the club in 2015. He was a Scotland under-20 international", "id": "10873501" }, { "contents": "Brian Robinson (soccer)\n\n\nBrian Robinson (born 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He started playing at the age of ten with the Evening Optimist Club in his home town and later starred in the Victoria High School team that reached the B.C. High School final in 1966. At 17 he was playing for Vic West in the Victoria City League where he played for two years before joining Victoria United in the Pacific Coast League. By 1970 he was playing in the Western Canada Soccer League", "id": "11330905" }, { "contents": "Daniel McBreen\n\n\nDaniel James McBreen (born 23 April 1977) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW club Edgeworth, and is a coach with Newcastle Jets U15. Born in England, McBreen moved to Australia with his family when he was six weeks old and started his career in local football with Toronto Awaba Stags and Edgeworth Eagles. He earned a professional contract with National Soccer League club Newcastle United in 2000, where he played for two seasons before joining Universitatea Craiova of the Romanian Divizia A.", "id": "9649312" }, { "contents": "Tomislav Uskok\n\n\nTomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney United in the National Premier Leagues. Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club Melbourne Knights. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined Victorian State League Division 1 side St Albans Saints for the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014", "id": "8367993" }, { "contents": "Austin Berry (soccer)\n\n\nthe newly-formed club FC Cincinnati in the lower division United Soccer League. He served as FC Cincinnati's team captain for two seasons before retiring from his playing career and accepting a position as the club's strength and conditioning coach. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended the Summit Country Day School for high school where he played four fall seasons of soccer. With a 14–1–1 record during his senior year, Berry contributed 10 goals, 6 assists, and led his team to the Regional finals. He earned first team", "id": "19581628" }, { "contents": "Gary Smith (footballer, born 1968)\n\n\nGary Neil Smith (born 3 December 1968) is an English former footballer. He is currently Head Coach & Technical Director of Nashville SC in the United Soccer League, the second tier in the US soccer pyramid. Smith's playing career began at Fulham, progressing through the youth team before making one first-team appearance for the club. After a brief spell with Colchester United, Smith joined non-league side Enfield in 1989. His most successful spell during his playing days was at Wycombe Wanderers, spending two seasons with", "id": "686418" }, { "contents": "Lee Scroggins\n\n\nLeepaul Scroggins (born 23 October 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for South Shields. Scroggins began his career with Darlington, but moved on to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Blyth Spartans in 2001 without having played for Darlington's first team. He spent just over a year with Spartans, before joining Whitley Bay of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. Scroggins then moved to the United States, where he had a successful college soccer career at Lynn University, graduating in Sports Recreation", "id": "8969031" }, { "contents": "Brad Smith (footballer, born 1948)\n\n\nBrad R. Smith (born 3 December 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also had a long career in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) where he played for East Perth and coached East Fremantle. Smith was a late comer to VFL football as he had spent eight years at East Perth before joining North Melbourne. He was a member of East Perth's 1972 and 1978 premiership teams and a back pocket player in", "id": "8985200" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Dunne (footballer, born 1997)\n\n\nJames Gerard Dunne (born 19 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Burnley. Dunne played locally in Ireland before joining the youth set-up at Manchester United in 2007. After transferring to Burnley in 2016, he spent time on loan at Barrow (where he made his senior debut in August 2017) and Accrington Stanley (where he made his Football League debut in January 2018). Born in Dundalk Dunne began his career with St Kevin's Boys Club before joining the Manchester", "id": "18334762" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\na Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Ayr United at Hampden Park. During the 2013–14 season, Rooney made 11 appearances for Queen's Park. His breakthrough season came in 2014–15, when he played in 30 matches, scoring his first goal on 15 November 2014 with a header against Elgin City in a 4–1 win. Rooney's impressive performances for Queen's Park saw him awarded the club's Young Player of the Year and also being named in the PFA Scotland Scottish League Two Team of the Year. The start of 2015–16 saw Rooney", "id": "16210766" }, { "contents": "Jonas Salley\n\n\nGyawe Jonas Salley (born 16 March 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a former Ivorian-Australian footballer, who last played for Hohhot Zhongyou in China League One. He is currently an assistant coach for Qingdao Red Lions. Salley moved to Australia to escape from the civil and government problems of his home country in 2006. He first played at Mill Park Soccer Club, where his outstanding performances were noticed within a very short time. He was eventually signed up to play with Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne. He was then", "id": "20136861" }, { "contents": "Alan Green (soccer)\n\n\nAlan Green (born 1 January 1954) is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Green, a native of Worcester, England, began his professional career with Coventry City. He joined the club as a striker in 1970, but did not make his first team debut until April 22, 1972, which was", "id": "15514446" }, { "contents": "Tommy Kelly (footballer)\n\n\nTommy Kelly was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A dynamic midfielder, he is quite simply a Bohemian F.C. legend, his career at Dalymount Park spanning 3 different decades. He appeared in a club record 19 games in European competition and won 2 League of Ireland titles. He joined Bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the \"B\" team. He made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over Drogheda on April 10, 1966.", "id": "14451234" }, { "contents": "Kevin Egan\n\n\nKevin Egan (born 10 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and played in Essendon's 1965 premiership team. Egan was used mostly as a rover and wingman. After leaving Essendon Egan spent some time at both South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide and the Victorian", "id": "1551420" }, { "contents": "Kenny Hill (association footballer)\n\n\nKenneth George Hill (born 7 March 1953) is an English former association football defender who played professionally in England and the North American Soccer League. In 1971, he joined Gillingham, playing 125 league matches before leaving the team for the United States in 1974. That year, he signed with the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He also played for Maidstone United, where he began his career, Lincoln City, with whom he made a single appearance in", "id": "347314" }, { "contents": "Ray Farningham\n\n\nRay Farningham (born 10 April 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder for a handful of Scottish clubs. He previously managed Forfar Athletic, Montrose and was the assistant manager of Dundee. Ray is now assistant manager at junior side Lochee United F.C. Farningham trained as a youth with Dundee United before beginning his senior career with Forfar Athletic, making his debut towards the end of the 1970s. In his seven years at Station Park, Farningham was part of the sides which won the 1983–84 Scottish Second", "id": "3703221" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Kirk\n\n\nJames Kirk (born 12 November 1925) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Bury, Colchester United, Torquay United and Aldershot. Born in Tarbolton, Kirk began his career in Scotland with St Mirren, where he made 86 league appearances for the club, before moving to England to play for Bury, where he featured in 79 Football League matches. Kirk joined Colchester United in 1954 and spent one season with the club, making his", "id": "21920041" }, { "contents": "Gary Crouch\n\n\nGary Crouch (born 27 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After leaving Essendon, Crouch played for Rochester for one season before moving to Western Australia and joining Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He spent four seasons with Subiaco, playing on half back flank in the 1973 WAFL winning Grand Final team. He then moved back to Victoria to the Bendigo Football League (BFL). Crouch played one season with South Bendigo and", "id": "16878056" }, { "contents": "Neil Jenkins (footballer)\n\n\nNeil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Leatherhead F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team. Born in Carshalton, London, Jenkins joined the Essex based team Southend United in July 2002, on a one", "id": "9293884" }, { "contents": "John Reilly (footballer, born 1962)\n\n\nJohn Reilly (born 21 March 1962 in Dundee) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Reilly began his career with Dundee United, signing as a schoolboy from Strathtay Boys Club in 1979. He played for the Scotland Under 17 and Under 18 professional youth sides before making his first team debut in August 1980. He was a member of the squad that won a Premier League Winners medal in season 1982–1983 before going onto score the club's first ever goal in the European Cup the following season. Signing", "id": "10817319" } ]

[ { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nJames Rooney (born 10 December 1945 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former association football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 FIFA World Cup squad in West Germany. Rooney was a left winger who played first team football with Lochee United, Peterborough United and Montrose F.C. in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1960s. He was an instant success there with Ukrainian Essendon Lions before transferring to Sydney to join the Prague club in 1970, and later playing at APIA Leichhardt, in", "id": "318576" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\n1974 FIFA World Cup campaign, earning himself many admirers for his hard tackling and ball distribution. The Jimmy Rooney Medal, awarded from 1992 onwards to the man of the match in the Victorian Premier League Grand Final, was named in his honour. He has recently settled to a managerial role of Victorian senior team, Eastern Lions, and also hosts a junior training program. He is also currently the head coach of the first eleven soccer team at St Kevin's College, Melbourne, Australia. In his second season in charge", "id": "318578" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nthe New South Wales First Division. In 1977, with APIA not joining the newly formed National Soccer League, Rooney joined Marconi Fairfield for two seasons, before moving back to Victoria where he played with Fitzroy Alexander and Croydon City Arrows. He made his Australian debut against a England XI in 1971, going on play 57 times for his country (although he also accrued caps in \"B\" team fixtures, bringing the total to 102) in a career spanning a decade. He was Australia's first choice midfielder in the", "id": "318577" }, { "contents": "Ronald Chitiyo\n\n\nRonald Chitiyo (born 10 June 1992), commonly known as Rooney, is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national team. Chitiyo, son of former footballer Frank Chitiyo, began his senior career with Douglas Warriors. Two years later, he would leave to join Monomotapa United, during his time with Monomotapa he finished as second runner-up in the 2012 Soccer Star of the Year award. In 2013, Chitiyo had trials at South African Premier Soccer League", "id": "230018" }, { "contents": "Jim Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nJim Rooney (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional soccer player who played as both a midfielder and a striker. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Soccer League team Boca Raton FC. Jim Rooney was born in The Bronx, New York City. Rooney played college soccer at Fordham University and C.W. Post. At C.W. Post, he played with the Pioneers. He currently holds the school's record for most goals in a single season: 21. Rooney began his professional career in 1994 with", "id": "327338" }, { "contents": "Wayne Rooney\n\n\nWayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles. He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United. At club level, he has won every honour available in English, European and Continental football, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup. Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the", "id": "20357111" }, { "contents": "Mark Rooney\n\n\nMark Rooney (born 13 December 1983) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker. He is the elder brother of Adam Rooney. Rooney began his senior career at Dublin City before joining UCD in 2003 where he broke into the Student's first team. Rooney only stayed at Belfield Park for one season before joining his former manager at UCD, Paul Doolin at Drogheda United in 2004. Despite a difficult season for him personally, only scoring one league goal in 22 appearances, Rooney was part of the Drogheda United", "id": "21841504" }, { "contents": "Bobby Rooney\n\n\nRobert Rooney (8 July 1938 – 9 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who made 47 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City. He played as a winger. Rooney was born in Cowie, Stirling, and began his football career with Clydebank Juniors in his native Scotland before joining English Second Division club Sheffield United in 1958. He played occasionally in his first two seasons with the club, but not thereafter. In the 1962–63 season, he was registered with three clubs:", "id": "776620" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Gabriel\n\n\nJames Gabriel (born 10 October 1940) is a Scottish former football midfielder, who earned two caps with the Scotland national football team. Chiefly associated with English club Everton, Gabriel played extensively in Scotland and England before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach in both England and the USA, where he lives today. Jimmy Gabriel first came to the attention of Dundee when he played at right-half for the Scotland under-15 schoolboys in an international at Dens Park.", "id": "5028700" }, { "contents": "Con Boutsianis\n\n\nConstantinos \"Con\" Boutsianis (born 27 December 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former international, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Boutsianis began his career with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in 1989, and soon established himself as a goalscoring midfielder. He left South at the end of the 1994/95 season to join Heidelberg United for the 1996 Victorian Premier League season, before joining Collingwood Warriors for their one and only season in the NSL. Following the club's demise at", "id": "4070407" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\nSteven Laurie (born 30 October 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who played as a defender. He played in England with West Ham United's youth academy and Peterborough United, before returning to Australia to play for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League and Sydney FC in the A-League. He is currently the head manager of Geelong SC. Steve Laurie started his professional youth career with the Victorian Institute of Sport, spending a year at the academy in 1997", "id": "21322154" }, { "contents": "David Jones (footballer, born 1955)\n\n\nDavid Jones (born 1 April 1955 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian former soccer player and coach. Jones played his junior soccer for Kwinana United before graduating to the senior team in 1970. He remained with the club until the end of the 1975 season, where he won the Rothmans Gold Medal award for the season's fairest and best player. In 1976 Jones played for East Fremantle Tricolore. In the first year of the National Soccer League in 1977 he played for West Adelaide and was part of the club", "id": "12543554" }, { "contents": "Luke Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nLuke William Rooney (born 28 December 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and is a free agent after leaving his most recent club, Welling United. Born in Bermondsey, London, Rooney joined Gillingham as an apprentice professional in 2007. He forced his way into the first team squad in early December 2008 and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup second round replay at Stockport County. In early 2009 he was loaned out to Lewes of the Conference National, where he made six appearances. He turned", "id": "6731049" }, { "contents": "Preston Lions FC\n\n\nthe Year Bill Fleming Medal – Media voted VPL Player of the Year Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year Victorian Premier League Under 21 Player of the Year Jimmy Rooney Medal – VPL Grand Final Man of the Match Weinstein Medal Junior Player of the Year Australian Representatives – Senior Level National Representatives – Youth Team Victorian State Representatives – Senior Level ● Preston Makedonia Inaugural season *Victorian Provisional League* 1959 - 4th - 10 Teams in League. ● Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2", "id": "19353574" }, { "contents": "Bob Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nRobert “Bob” Rooney was a U.S. soccer center forward who spent his playing career in the St. Louis leagues. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957. Rooney grew up in the Dogtown area of St. Louis, attending St. James Grade School and St. Louis University High School. As a youth, he played both football and baseball in addition to soccer spending five seasons with a St. Louis Cardinals farm team. Even while playing in the local St. Louis soccer leagues, Rooney earned a living as a", "id": "2939914" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\n, before moving to England, joining the youth academy of West Ham United F.C. in 1998. Laurie remained with the Hammers academy until 2002, then moving to Peterborough United F.C.. He returned to Australia after being lured back by former Rangers F.C. player and then coach Stuart Munro to play for National Soccer League powerhouse South Melbourne FC in the last season of the NSL. Laurie was one of the first six signings for the newly formed Hyundai A-League club Sydney FC, although later he was released from his contract via mutual", "id": "21322155" }, { "contents": "William McLachlan (footballer)\n\n\nWilliam McLachlan (born 19 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Airdrie United and for Australian club Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. McLachlan began his career with Rangers and appeared for the Scotland U-16 team in a Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland in October 2004. In December 2008, he joined Airdrie United on loan. He made his debut against St Johnstone on 20 December.", "id": "18351658" }, { "contents": "Joe Montemurro\n\n\nJoseph Adrian Montemurro (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian former soccer player, currently the manager of Arsenal Women. Montemurro played as a midfielder during his short professional career, mainly in Italy, before returning to Australia to play in the Victorian state leagues. He began coaching in youth football for various Victorian clubs, before his first managerial role with Sunshine George Cross, and then later, Coburg United. His first job abroad came in 2013, spending four months as the inaugural manager of Papa New Guinean side Port Moresby", "id": "14957118" }, { "contents": "Tommy Rooney\n\n\nTommy Rooney (born 30 December 1984) is an English footballer who played for League Two club Macclesfield Town during the 2004–05 season as a striker and later played non-league football for Vauxhall Motors. Tommy, who is the cousin of Wayne, John and Graeme Rooney, began his career at Tranmere Rovers, where he played in the youth and reserve sides but did not break into the first-team. He joined League Two club Macclesfield Town in May 2004 on a one-year contract and made two league and cup", "id": "9458597" }, { "contents": "Steven Weir\n\n\nSteven Weir (born 3 October 1988) is a Scottish Junior footballer who plays as a striker for West of Scotland Super League Premier Division club Arthurlie. Born in Harthill, Scotland, he started his career with Livingston, where he also spent a spell on loan at Cowdenbeath. He joined Arbroath before moving to Australia where he played for North Eastern Soccer League side, Shepparton South. He scored 28 goals in 12 games in his first season with the club, and played his first match for the team four hours after arriving", "id": "18510479" }, { "contents": "Jimmy McDonnell\n\n\nJames McDonnell (1927 – 30 September 2017) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team spanned three decades from 1948 until 1960. Born in Darver, County Louth, McDonnell first played competitive Gaelic football with the Darver Volunteers club. He won a junior league medal in 1952 before winning a county junior championship medal in 1956. From 1961 onward McDonnell played with the newly-formed St. Joseph's club. McDonnell made his debut with the Louth senior team during", "id": "4115167" }, { "contents": "Sean Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nSean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the", "id": "16687041" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)\n\n\nJames E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee, and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock. Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928. In a five-and-a-half-year career with", "id": "9343677" }, { "contents": "Dylan Murnane\n\n\nDylan Murnane (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a left back for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. In 2012, Murnane was a member of the Port Melbourne SC side that won promotion to the Victorian Premier League and reached the final of the State Knockout Cup, before he was recruited by the Melbourne Victory Youth team. After initially joining the club as member of the youth team in late 2012, Murnane made his professional debut with home town giants Melbourne Victory against Sydney", "id": "12515687" }, { "contents": "Jim Tansey\n\n\nJim Tansey (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian former association football player. The son of Everton footballer Jimmy Tansey, Tansey was born in Liverpool, England in 1953. He emigrated to Australia in 1974. Tansey began his senior playing career for South Liverpool F.C.. After moving to Australia, he played for Slavia Melbourne in the Victorian State League. With the start of the National Soccer League (NSL), Tansey moved to Fitzroy United Alexander. He later played for NSL club Footscray JUST. Between 1975 and 1981", "id": "10339389" }, { "contents": "Ray McKinnon (footballer)\n\n\nRaymond McKinnon (born 5 August 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the manager of Falkirk. As a player, McKinnon was a midfielder whose clubs included Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Aberdeen, Livingston, Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also represented the Scotland under-21 team. McKinnon began his managerial career in junior football with Lochee United before managing senior clubs Brechin City, Raith Rovers, Dundee United, Morton and left just three months later for Falkirk. McKinnon was born in Dundee on 5 August", "id": "4406705" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Douglas (Canadian soccer)\n\n\nJimmy Douglas (born October 6, 1948 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish-Canadian soccer midfielder and head coach. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League and earned fourteen caps for the Canadian national soccer team. Born in Scotland, Douglas moved to Canada in 1964 when he was sixteen. He almost immediately began playing for St. Catharines Heidelberg in the National Soccer League and by 1970 was in the first team. In 1974, he played in the North American Soccer League with the Toronto Metros before returning", "id": "12329068" }, { "contents": "Gary Hasler\n\n\nGary Hasler (born 5 May 1970) is an Australian former association football player. he played in the National Soccer League for Sunshine George Cross and South Melbourne. In international football, he made two appearances for Australia and also represented the country at the 1992 Olympics. Hasler joined Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League in 1989. In 1992, he joined South Melbourne. After two seasons he moved to Heidelberg in the Victorian Premier League. Hasler was a member of the Australian squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In", "id": "18353802" }, { "contents": "Sebastian Ryall\n\n\nSebastian \"Seb\" Ryall (born 18 July 1989) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender, most recently for Sydney FC. Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Football Club in Sydney. Ryall later played for the AIS in the Victorian Premier League before signing for Melbourne Victory on a 2-year contract in August 2007. He made his first appearance for the club in their round 3 match against Adelaide United and played in their Grand Final win over Adelaide in March 2009. In April 2009", "id": "1237851" }, { "contents": "Cameron Watson (footballer)\n\n\nCameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side Moreland Zebras FC. Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move", "id": "15681415" }, { "contents": "Jack Ross (footballer, born 1976)\n\n\nJohn James Ross (born 5 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the manager of English League One club Sunderland. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He", "id": "9812399" }, { "contents": "Jesse Daley\n\n\nJesse Daley (born 16 October 1997) is an Australian soccer player who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship. Daley spent time at Queensland Academy of Sport, before playing with the youth team at Brisbane Roar, before spending time with Melbourne Victory following his release from the club, before again playing with Brisbane Roar. Daley joined National Premier Leagues Victoria side South Melbourne FC ahead of their 2017 season. He left the club in January 2018, joining National Premier League side Lions FC. Following a trial, Daley", "id": "13637473" }, { "contents": "Steven Pace\n\n\nSteven Pace (born 6 March 1983) is an Australian footballer who plays for Heidelberg United FC. Earlier in his career, Pace played for various Victorian teams, including South Melbourne, Essendon Royals and the Preston Lions. He has been described as a \"utility\" player, having played as a midfielder as well as a central defender. He played in the latter position for the Preston Lions in their successful 2007 campaign, when they won the Victorian Premier League Championship. When the Melbourne Victory signed Pace in October 2007,", "id": "2478195" }, { "contents": "Evans Rusike\n\n\nEvans Rusike (born 13 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for Premier Soccer League side Supersport United in South Africa. He also plays for the Zimbabwe national team. Rusike began his career in Zimbabwe with Kiglon in 2010, before moving to Zimbabwe Saints in 2012. Three years later, in 2015, he left his homeland for the first time as he agreed to join South African Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United. His league debut came on 22 August against Ajax Cape Town. At the end", "id": "8298403" }, { "contents": "Tarek Elrich\n\n\nTarek Elrich (born 1 January 1987) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a right back and midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League. Elrich was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his senior career with Sydney Olympic, before moving to Newcastle Jets in 2006. In 2012, he moved to new club Western Sydney Wanderers before moving again to Adelaide United one season later. Tarek played youth football for Australia, before being called up to the Lebanon national team in 2012.", "id": "21014072" }, { "contents": "Dominic Smith (footballer)\n\n\nDominic Rooney Smith (born 22 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Northern Premier League North Division side Droylsden. He began his career with Crewe Alexandra, where he progressed through the club's Academy, but failed to make a first team appearance. He joined Colchester United in 2014, where he made his Football League debut in September 2014. He had a brief loan spell at A.F.C. Hornchurch, before leaving Colchester after the expiry of his one-year deal. He has since represented numerous Northern", "id": "18972781" }, { "contents": "Dave Harding\n\n\nDavid Harding (born 14 August 1946) is a former football (soccer) midfielder. He played for Wrexham from 1965 to 1966, then South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, before moving to Australia where he played for Pan Hellenic, Western Suburbs, Blacktown City and APIA until 1981. In this time he won NSW representative honours in 1974 against Bristol Rovers. Harding was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany and represented Australia 45 times between 1974 and 1977 scoring 11 times. More recently he", "id": "3031486" }, { "contents": "George Howard (footballer)\n\n\nGeorge Howard (born 8 October 1996) is an English-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker. George Howard moved to Australia with his family aged 1 or 15 from England where he had participated in the Sheffield United Academy, and was playing senior football for then fourth tier Victorian State League Division 1 side Eastern Lions by age 16. Howard joined National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 club Box Hill United in 2014, and was recruited to the Melbourne Victory Youth squad by Darren Davies in 2015. He trialled with the", "id": "12301976" }, { "contents": "George Slifkas\n\n\nGeorge Slifkas (born 18 October 1969) is an Australian former association football player. Slifkas played for Preston Makedonia, Heidelberg United and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s he dropped down to the Victorian Premier League where he played for the Bulleen Lions, the Thomastown Zebras and the Melbourne Raiders. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Slifkas played four matches as Australia placed fourth. In 1993 Slifkas made his first and only international appearance for Australia as a substitute in a match against", "id": "18566415" }, { "contents": "Luciano Trani\n\n\nLuciano Trani (born 10 August 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former football (soccer) player who was most recently the manager of National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side North Geelong Warriors FC. Trani began coaching at the Victorian Premier League and National Soccer League levels with the Fawkner Blues, Essendon Royals, Whittlesea Stallions, Brisbane Strikers and the Melbourne Knights. He then took up roles as a coaching instructor for Football Federation Victoria and Head Coach of Pascoe Vale FC, before joining Wellington Phoenix. He then transferred to", "id": "3270514" }, { "contents": "Touk Miller\n\n\n. Such was his talent, he was selected to represent the under 15 Victorian state cricket team at the national championships in March 2011 and made his first XI debut for the North Melbourne Cricket Club at the Junction Oval in December 2011 before electing to focus on football the following year. Miller played all of his junior years with the Maribyrnong Park Lions in the Essendon District Football League and made his senior debut for the club in 2011 at the age of 15. He played junior football for both St Kevin's College in the", "id": "17982973" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Bullard\n\n\nJames Richard Bullard (born 23 October 1978) is an English former footballer, coach and television presenter. He is currently co-host of the Saturday morning Sky TV show Soccer AM. As a player he was a midfielder and played youth football at West Ham United before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet in 1998. Two seasons at Peterborough United was followed by a spell at Wigan Athletic where he scored ten goals in 145 league appearances, helping them to their first promotion to the Premier League. Bullard was known for being a", "id": "8289895" }, { "contents": "Kieran Dover\n\n\nKieran Dover is an Australian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Green Gully in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. From Stockton-on-Tees, Dover started his career at the youth team of Sunderland before moving to Australia at the age of twelve, where he joined the youth ranks at Berwick City. He then eventually went on to join Dandenong Thunder of the NPL Victoria where he was named Winning Edge Presentations Rising Star of the Month in August. He also played for the Melbourne Victory youth sides in", "id": "8333803" }, { "contents": "Andrew Robertson\n\n\nAndrew Robertson (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. Robertson began his senior career with Queen's Park in 2012 before joining Dundee United a year later. His form in his first season as a professional led to him being named SPFA Young Player of the Year and also making his international debut. He joined Hull City in July 2014 for a fee of £2.85 million, before joining Liverpool in July 2017 for an", "id": "17961904" }, { "contents": "Steve Hayward\n\n\nSteve Hayward (born 8 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder in a sixteen-year career spanning from 1988 to 2004. Born in Pelsall near Walsall, Hayward began his career with Derby County and made his League debut in 1990, but found first-team opportunities limited. He joined Carlisle United in 1994 and won two promotions from Division Three and the 1997 Football League Trophy Final during his time at the club before moving to Fulham in 1997. He played a role in Fulham", "id": "6088205" }, { "contents": "Vince Lia\n\n\nVince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Adelaide United in the A-League. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior debut with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League. He spent one season with Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues in 2005 before joining Melbourne Victory in 2005 to play in the newly-formed A-League. Lia next spent a decade at Wellington Phoenix, making over 200 appearances for the club in all competitions. He", "id": "5478442" }, { "contents": "Peter Stone (footballer)\n\n\nPeter Stone (born 30 September 1954) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Stone played his junior football for Adamstown before playing for Western Suburbs in the New South Wales state league (1973–1976) and the National Soccer League (1977). In 1978, he moved to APIA Leichhardt, where he played three NSL seasons. Stone moved to St. George in 1980 where he played two seasons. Stone made his international debut for Australia in 1976 against Hong Kong. He also played over in England for Tottenham Hotspur", "id": "5877228" }, { "contents": "Sean Cranney\n\n\nSean Cranney (born 2 October 1973) is an Australian former association football player. Cranney played for Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club before joining Brisbane United in the Queensland state league in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was signed to National Soccer League team Brisbane Strikers. At the Strikers he played five seasons before moving to Northern Spirit for the 1990/2000 season. Cranney played for Australia at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Cranney made his full international debut in November 1996 for Australia in an OFC Nations Cup match against New", "id": "18125994" }, { "contents": "Derek Spalding\n\n\nDerek Spalding (born 20 December 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former soccer player, who played as a defender. Spalding played for Hibernian in the Scottish Football League until he emigrated to the United States in 1977. He then played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least two in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the US national team, in 1982. Growing up in Scotland, Spalding signed with First Division club Hibernian as a youth player. He worked his way", "id": "11180604" }, { "contents": "Ross Barkley\n\n\n23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 but did not appear in any of England's matches. Managers and teammates have compared his style of play to those of Michael Ballack, Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Barkley was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. He joined Everton as an 11-year-old and played for the club's youth teams. He was named as a substitute in a first team league match in early 2010–11, and was expected to make his Premier League debut before his leg was broken in one place after a collision with", "id": "7578236" }, { "contents": "Erick Chipeta\n\n\nErick Chipeta (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Zimbabwe national team. Chipeta started his career in Zimbabwe with Hwange Colliery, where he remained for two years before leaving his homeland for South Africa for the first time. 2014 saw Chipeta join newly promoted Premier Soccer League side Chippa United. He made his debut for Chippa in a 1–1 draw at home to Mamelodi Sundowns on 22 October. In total he made 18 appearances and scored 1 goal in his first season", "id": "6134269" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\nShaun Antony Rooney (born 26 July 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Rooney has previously played for Queen's Park, Dunfermline Athletic, York City and Queen of the South. Rooney was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. Rooney started his career playing youth football with Bellshill Boys Club and Dundee United, before signing with Scottish League Two club Queen's Park in July 2013. Rooney's first-team debut came shortly after signing for the club, in", "id": "16210765" }, { "contents": "Robert Trajkovski\n\n\nRobert Trajkovski (born 24 July 1972) is an Australian former footballer. Trajkovski began his senior career with Altona before moving to National Soccer League team Melbourne City. After a season with Melbourne City Trajkovski transferred to Sydney United. He played two season for United between 1995 and 1997. In the 1997/98 season Trajkovski played for Carlton, playing 22 matches. Trajkovski moved to Perth Glory for the 1998/99 season. After playing 73 matches over three seasons for the Glory he moved to Northern Spirit where he saw out his top flight career", "id": "5112927" }, { "contents": "Sasa Macura\n\n\nSasa Macura is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Manly United in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Macura played youth football for Northern Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Bonnyrigg White Eagles before moving to Hungary. There, he made his professional debut for MTK Budapest as well as playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II for MTK's reserve team and Szigetszentmiklósi. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for Blacktown City. He moved to Manly United in 2017. Macura was born in", "id": "14725944" }, { "contents": "Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)\n\n\nPhilip Anthony Jones (born 21 February 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Manchester United and the English national team. Before joining Manchester United, Jones played for Blackburn Rovers at both youth and senior levels. Although primarily a centre-back, he has also been used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Jones has represented England at various levels and is currently a member of the England senior squad. He played for the under-19 team in 2009 before making his debut for the under-21 team in 2010", "id": "13966664" }, { "contents": "Paul Bilokapic\n\n\nPaul Bilokapic (born 8 August 1976) is an Australian former soccer player. He played as a midfielder. After playing youth football for Yaralla, he moved to Sydney Croatia (later Sydney United) where he played until the end of the 1997–98 National Soccer League season. After two seasons with Northern Spirit FC, he returned to Sydney United, where he played until the end of the 2002–03 National Soccer League season. Bilokapic made his full international debut for Australia in February 1998 in a friendly match against Chile. He made", "id": "10116884" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875)\n\n\nJames Jackson (15 September 1875 – after 1914) was a footballer who played as a full back or at wing half. Jackson's family emigrated from Scotland to Australia where he was raised and where he began his senior football career while still in his early teens. He returned to Scotland in 1893, appearing in Junior football and briefly for Rangers before moving to England to join Newcastle United. Two years later he signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he spent six seasons, captaining the club in its inaugural season in the Football League", "id": "19786821" }, { "contents": "David Carney\n\n\nDavid Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC. Born in Sydney, he began his playing career with the New South Wales Institute of Sport before moving to England to join Everton. Having failed to break into the Everton first team he then moved to Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical in Scotland before returning to his native Australia. After a successful spell with Sydney FC, Carney then returned to England, signing with Sheffield United before", "id": "3576647" }, { "contents": "John Pritchard (footballer)\n\n\nJohn Vincent Pritchard (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Ashton United. Pritchard was in his youth a trainee by Manchester United, before joined in April 2012 to Oldham Athletic. He made his debut for Oldham Athletic on 21 December 2013 in a 2–0 defeat to Colchester United at Boundary Park, he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Adam Rooney. After two seasons was released and joined in August 2014 to FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League", "id": "278653" }, { "contents": "APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC\n\n\nhistory of the club when skipper Jimmy Rooney and centreforward Peter Ollerton, who scored five goals, won 9–1 against Auburn in front of a crowd of 5210 at Wentworth Park, the highest finals result ever. Rooney and Ollerton were also in the team that represented Australia a few months later in its first World Cup participation in Germany. In 1979 APIA was given access to the National Soccer League, the top tier of Australian soccer since 1977. In 1987 APIA won the national championship, six points ahead of the Preston Makedonia Soccer", "id": "17492652" }, { "contents": "Ante Moric\n\n\nAnte Tomislav Moric (born 19 April 1974) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Leagues Victoria side Dandenong City SC. Moric played at club level in Australia and Croatia for St. George, AIS, Sydney United, Zadar, Canberra Cosmos, Sydney Olympic, Fraser Park, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Rockdale City Suns. He also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After a stint with the youth side of National Premier Leagues NSW 2 side St George", "id": "5169013" }, { "contents": "John May (Australian footballer)\n\n\nJohn May (born 15 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). May was recruited to play for Essendon's under-19s from West Coburg in the Essendon District Football League. In 1970, his second season with the under-19s, he was named captain and also played several matches in the reserves before making his senior VFL debut late in the season. He kicked one goal from his three games playing as a midfielder and stayed with Essendon for another year, but", "id": "16685305" }, { "contents": "Andrew Fox (footballer)\n\n\nAndrew Thomas Philip Fox (born 15 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fox began his playing career during his time at university, playing football in the USA for 4 years with St. Edward's University Soccer Team. After a short spell at Texan club Midland/Odessa Sockers, Fox moved back to England in July 2015, where he joined League One side Peterborough United on a free transfer. He joined National League side Kidderminster Harriers on loan", "id": "3891979" }, { "contents": "Petar Franjic\n\n\nPetar Franjic (born 7 April 1992) is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Avondale FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Franjic joined the Melbourne Knights FC under 21 squad in 2009 after spending a number of years with the Victorian Institute of Sport. That year, he made his breakthrough into senior football, making six appearances for the first team in the Victorian Premier League in the first half of the season. He was then picked up by A-League side Melbourne Victory FC, initially with the youth team.", "id": "1076969" }, { "contents": "Jacob Burns (soccer)\n\n\nJacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory. Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay. His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October", "id": "5439205" }, { "contents": "Zander Diamond\n\n\nAlexander Kevin \"Zander\" Diamond (born 12 March 1985) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He began his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen, before moving to Oldham Athletic in 2011; he later played for Burton Albion, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town in England. He won eleven caps for Scotland under-21s. Raised in the west of Scotland in Dumbarton, Alexandria-born Diamond graduated from the youth team at Aberdeen in his first full season and made his League debut against Dundee", "id": "20263817" }, { "contents": "Hilton Kotzur\n\n\nHilton Kotzur (born 20 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kotzur represented New South Wales as a junior, but was also a member of the Victorian team which won the 1981 Teal Cup, earning All-Australian honours He joined the Swans when they were still based in Melbourne and played both Under-19s and reserves football for the club, before he fractured two vertebrae in 1982. The back injury stalled his career and it was not until", "id": "20658877" }, { "contents": "Christopher Forrester\n\n\nChristopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland Premier Division. He has also previously played for Bohemians, Peterborough United, Aberdeen and the Republic of Ireland under-21's. In March 2016 he was called up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad but has yet to be capped. Forrester started his schoolboy career with his local team, Smithfield, where he stayed for three seasons. He played for Bohemians for three seasons before", "id": "3737210" }, { "contents": "James Meyer (footballer)\n\n\nJames Meyer (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Queensland club Brisbane City. Born in Sydney, Meyer started his youth career with Brisbane City FC in 2005. The following year Meyer went to Europe and signed on as a youth player for Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and then Hertha BSC of Germany the next year. He then returned to Australia in 2008 to play for Olympic FC of the Queensland State League before joining Eastern Suburbs F.C. of the Brisbane Premier League", "id": "21300581" }, { "contents": "Billy Ions\n\n\nRooney and Spanish forward Fernando Torres to whom he compared himself to. Ions first started playing football in the youth team of the local village of Valle de San Lorenzo in Tenerife, named \"Constanza\". Years later he started to play in the football school of Juan Miguel. At the age of 15, Ions joined the youth setup at CD Tenerife. In February 2010, he returned to England to join Newcastle United, the club he supported as a child. He made his Under-18's debut in a home match against", "id": "2185330" }, { "contents": "Jason Geria\n\n\nJason Kato Geria (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for JEF United Chiba in the J2 League and for the Australia national team. Born in Canberra, Geria played youth football with the Australian Institute of Sport and Brisbane Roar youth before joining Melbourne Victory in 2012, where he made his professional debut and played for five years. Geria was born in Canberra to Ugandan parents. Geria's first youth club was Weston Creek SC in Canberra. He also played in", "id": "13593993" }, { "contents": "Vincent Bezecourt\n\n\nVincent Bezecourt (born 10 June 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Bezecourt began his football career in France with Jeunesse Villenavaise and made his debut with the first team during the 2012 season in Championnat de France amateur. In two season with the first team, he appeared in 52 league matches scoring 9 goals. In 2014, he went to the United States to play College soccer for St. Francis Brooklyn under head coach Tom Giovatto. In his first", "id": "7942392" }, { "contents": "Oliver Puflett\n\n\nOliver Puflett (born 26 July 1999) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a striker for S.League club Home United. Puflett started his career with the Western Sydney Wanderers FC, playing for its Under-21 team, scoring 5 goals in 11 games over 2 years. He also won the Y-League title in the 2017-18 season with them. He played for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC Under-21 squad before signing his first professional contract and joining Singapore Premier League side Home United FC in March 2019. He then made", "id": "9045653" }, { "contents": "Massimo Luongo\n\n\nMassimo Corey Luongo ( ; born 25 September 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Queens Park Rangers and the Australian national team. Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Queens Park Rangers in 2015. Luongo has played for the Australia", "id": "15251787" }, { "contents": "Graham Moss\n\n\nGraham Moss (born 14 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who was highly successful in both the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a Brownlow Medal-winning ruckman and played 343 senior games in the WAFL and VFL. Moss debuted for Claremont Football Club in the WAFL in 1969. In 1970, he made his debut for the Western Australian state team. Essendon attempted to lure him to Melbourne several times, and finally succeeded before the", "id": "15698753" }, { "contents": "Luke Power\n\n\nLuke Power (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). A member of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premiership winning teams, he played 282 games for the Lions before moving to Greater Western Sydney where he played his final season. He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Giants. Power debuted for the Lions as an 18-year-old in 1998, and he has", "id": "12553548" }, { "contents": "Robert Ironside (footballer)\n\n\nRobert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His club career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Sydney Olympic in the Australian National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to Newcastle Breakers He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle Ironside made his All White debut in a 1-1", "id": "19673589" }, { "contents": "James Jeggo\n\n\nJames Alexander Jeggo ( ; born 12 February 1992) is an Austrian-born Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a central midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and the Australian national team. Born in Vienna, Austria, Jeggo moved to Australia as a child, where he started his footballing career in youth football with Green Gully and at the Victorian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Melbourne Victory. Jeggo was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Australia as a child, growing", "id": "5614644" }, { "contents": "Jason Trifiro\n\n\nJason Trifiro (born 3 June 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Nunawading City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. Trifiro started his career in the semi-professional lower leagues in Australia, playing in New South Wales for National Premier Leagues NSW clubs Marconi Stallions, APIA Leichhardt and the South Coast Wolves. In 2011, he moved to Victoria where he played the 2011 Victorian Premier League with Northcote alongside his brother, before they both moved to ex-NSL heavyweight South Melbourne in the National", "id": "7283672" }, { "contents": "Stephen Glass (footballer)\n\n\nStephen Glass (born 23 May 1976) is a former Scottish professional footballer who is the current head coach of Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship. A midfielder, Glass started his career at Aberdeen, with whom he won the 1995 Scottish League Cup. In 1998, he moved to England, transferring to Newcastle United of the Premier League. Shortly after joining Newcastle, Glass made an appearance for the Scotland national football team. He joined Watford in the First Division in 2001, before returning to Scotland in 2003 with Hibernian", "id": "19685891" }, { "contents": "Stephen O'Donnell (footballer, born 1983)\n\n\nStephen James O'Donnell (born 10 July 1983) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career with Dundee United, making his debut in 2002. He spent time on loan with Ross County before leaving Dundee United in 2005 to play briefly in England with Boston United. Returning to Scottish football, O'Donnell had spells with Clyde and St Mirren before joining Dundee in 2010, where he later became club captain. He rejoined Clyde in 2014 and left the club in 2015. He was a Scotland under-20 international", "id": "10873501" }, { "contents": "Brian Robinson (soccer)\n\n\nBrian Robinson (born 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He started playing at the age of ten with the Evening Optimist Club in his home town and later starred in the Victoria High School team that reached the B.C. High School final in 1966. At 17 he was playing for Vic West in the Victoria City League where he played for two years before joining Victoria United in the Pacific Coast League. By 1970 he was playing in the Western Canada Soccer League", "id": "11330905" }, { "contents": "Daniel McBreen\n\n\nDaniel James McBreen (born 23 April 1977) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW club Edgeworth, and is a coach with Newcastle Jets U15. Born in England, McBreen moved to Australia with his family when he was six weeks old and started his career in local football with Toronto Awaba Stags and Edgeworth Eagles. He earned a professional contract with National Soccer League club Newcastle United in 2000, where he played for two seasons before joining Universitatea Craiova of the Romanian Divizia A.", "id": "9649312" }, { "contents": "Tomislav Uskok\n\n\nTomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney United in the National Premier Leagues. Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club Melbourne Knights. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined Victorian State League Division 1 side St Albans Saints for the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014", "id": "8367993" }, { "contents": "Austin Berry (soccer)\n\n\nthe newly-formed club FC Cincinnati in the lower division United Soccer League. He served as FC Cincinnati's team captain for two seasons before retiring from his playing career and accepting a position as the club's strength and conditioning coach. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended the Summit Country Day School for high school where he played four fall seasons of soccer. With a 14–1–1 record during his senior year, Berry contributed 10 goals, 6 assists, and led his team to the Regional finals. He earned first team", "id": "19581628" }, { "contents": "Gary Smith (footballer, born 1968)\n\n\nGary Neil Smith (born 3 December 1968) is an English former footballer. He is currently Head Coach & Technical Director of Nashville SC in the United Soccer League, the second tier in the US soccer pyramid. Smith's playing career began at Fulham, progressing through the youth team before making one first-team appearance for the club. After a brief spell with Colchester United, Smith joined non-league side Enfield in 1989. His most successful spell during his playing days was at Wycombe Wanderers, spending two seasons with", "id": "686418" }, { "contents": "Lee Scroggins\n\n\nLeepaul Scroggins (born 23 October 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for South Shields. Scroggins began his career with Darlington, but moved on to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Blyth Spartans in 2001 without having played for Darlington's first team. He spent just over a year with Spartans, before joining Whitley Bay of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. Scroggins then moved to the United States, where he had a successful college soccer career at Lynn University, graduating in Sports Recreation", "id": "8969031" }, { "contents": "Brad Smith (footballer, born 1948)\n\n\nBrad R. Smith (born 3 December 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also had a long career in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) where he played for East Perth and coached East Fremantle. Smith was a late comer to VFL football as he had spent eight years at East Perth before joining North Melbourne. He was a member of East Perth's 1972 and 1978 premiership teams and a back pocket player in", "id": "8985200" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Dunne (footballer, born 1997)\n\n\nJames Gerard Dunne (born 19 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Burnley. Dunne played locally in Ireland before joining the youth set-up at Manchester United in 2007. After transferring to Burnley in 2016, he spent time on loan at Barrow (where he made his senior debut in August 2017) and Accrington Stanley (where he made his Football League debut in January 2018). Born in Dundalk Dunne began his career with St Kevin's Boys Club before joining the Manchester", "id": "18334762" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\na Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Ayr United at Hampden Park. During the 2013–14 season, Rooney made 11 appearances for Queen's Park. His breakthrough season came in 2014–15, when he played in 30 matches, scoring his first goal on 15 November 2014 with a header against Elgin City in a 4–1 win. Rooney's impressive performances for Queen's Park saw him awarded the club's Young Player of the Year and also being named in the PFA Scotland Scottish League Two Team of the Year. The start of 2015–16 saw Rooney", "id": "16210766" }, { "contents": "Jonas Salley\n\n\nGyawe Jonas Salley (born 16 March 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a former Ivorian-Australian footballer, who last played for Hohhot Zhongyou in China League One. He is currently an assistant coach for Qingdao Red Lions. Salley moved to Australia to escape from the civil and government problems of his home country in 2006. He first played at Mill Park Soccer Club, where his outstanding performances were noticed within a very short time. He was eventually signed up to play with Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne. He was then", "id": "20136861" }, { "contents": "Alan Green (soccer)\n\n\nAlan Green (born 1 January 1954) is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Green, a native of Worcester, England, began his professional career with Coventry City. He joined the club as a striker in 1970, but did not make his first team debut until April 22, 1972, which was", "id": "15514446" }, { "contents": "Tommy Kelly (footballer)\n\n\nTommy Kelly was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A dynamic midfielder, he is quite simply a Bohemian F.C. legend, his career at Dalymount Park spanning 3 different decades. He appeared in a club record 19 games in European competition and won 2 League of Ireland titles. He joined Bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the \"B\" team. He made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over Drogheda on April 10, 1966.", "id": "14451234" }, { "contents": "Kevin Egan\n\n\nKevin Egan (born 10 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and played in Essendon's 1965 premiership team. Egan was used mostly as a rover and wingman. After leaving Essendon Egan spent some time at both South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide and the Victorian", "id": "1551420" }, { "contents": "Kenny Hill (association footballer)\n\n\nKenneth George Hill (born 7 March 1953) is an English former association football defender who played professionally in England and the North American Soccer League. In 1971, he joined Gillingham, playing 125 league matches before leaving the team for the United States in 1974. That year, he signed with the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He also played for Maidstone United, where he began his career, Lincoln City, with whom he made a single appearance in", "id": "347314" }, { "contents": "Ray Farningham\n\n\nRay Farningham (born 10 April 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder for a handful of Scottish clubs. He previously managed Forfar Athletic, Montrose and was the assistant manager of Dundee. Ray is now assistant manager at junior side Lochee United F.C. Farningham trained as a youth with Dundee United before beginning his senior career with Forfar Athletic, making his debut towards the end of the 1970s. In his seven years at Station Park, Farningham was part of the sides which won the 1983–84 Scottish Second", "id": "3703221" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Kirk\n\n\nJames Kirk (born 12 November 1925) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Bury, Colchester United, Torquay United and Aldershot. Born in Tarbolton, Kirk began his career in Scotland with St Mirren, where he made 86 league appearances for the club, before moving to England to play for Bury, where he featured in 79 Football League matches. Kirk joined Colchester United in 1954 and spent one season with the club, making his", "id": "21920041" }, { "contents": "Gary Crouch\n\n\nGary Crouch (born 27 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After leaving Essendon, Crouch played for Rochester for one season before moving to Western Australia and joining Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He spent four seasons with Subiaco, playing on half back flank in the 1973 WAFL winning Grand Final team. He then moved back to Victoria to the Bendigo Football League (BFL). Crouch played one season with South Bendigo and", "id": "16878056" }, { "contents": "Neil Jenkins (footballer)\n\n\nNeil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Leatherhead F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team. Born in Carshalton, London, Jenkins joined the Essex based team Southend United in July 2002, on a one", "id": "9293884" }, { "contents": "John Reilly (footballer, born 1962)\n\n\nJohn Reilly (born 21 March 1962 in Dundee) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Reilly began his career with Dundee United, signing as a schoolboy from Strathtay Boys Club in 1979. He played for the Scotland Under 17 and Under 18 professional youth sides before making his first team debut in August 1980. He was a member of the squad that won a Premier League Winners medal in season 1982–1983 before going onto score the club's first ever goal in the European Cup the following season. Signing", "id": "10817319" } ]

[ { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nJames Rooney (born 10 December 1945 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former association football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 FIFA World Cup squad in West Germany. Rooney was a left winger who played first team football with Lochee United, Peterborough United and Montrose F.C. in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1960s. He was an instant success there with Ukrainian Essendon Lions before transferring to Sydney to join the Prague club in 1970, and later playing at APIA Leichhardt, in", "id": "318576" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\n1974 FIFA World Cup campaign, earning himself many admirers for his hard tackling and ball distribution. The Jimmy Rooney Medal, awarded from 1992 onwards to the man of the match in the Victorian Premier League Grand Final, was named in his honour. He has recently settled to a managerial role of Victorian senior team, Eastern Lions, and also hosts a junior training program. He is also currently the head coach of the first eleven soccer team at St Kevin's College, Melbourne, Australia. In his second season in charge", "id": "318578" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nthe New South Wales First Division. In 1977, with APIA not joining the newly formed National Soccer League, Rooney joined Marconi Fairfield for two seasons, before moving back to Victoria where he played with Fitzroy Alexander and Croydon City Arrows. He made his Australian debut against a England XI in 1971, going on play 57 times for his country (although he also accrued caps in \"B\" team fixtures, bringing the total to 102) in a career spanning a decade. He was Australia's first choice midfielder in the", "id": "318577" }, { "contents": "Ronald Chitiyo\n\n\nRonald Chitiyo (born 10 June 1992), commonly known as Rooney, is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national team. Chitiyo, son of former footballer Frank Chitiyo, began his senior career with Douglas Warriors. Two years later, he would leave to join Monomotapa United, during his time with Monomotapa he finished as second runner-up in the 2012 Soccer Star of the Year award. In 2013, Chitiyo had trials at South African Premier Soccer League", "id": "230018" }, { "contents": "Jim Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nJim Rooney (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional soccer player who played as both a midfielder and a striker. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Soccer League team Boca Raton FC. Jim Rooney was born in The Bronx, New York City. Rooney played college soccer at Fordham University and C.W. Post. At C.W. Post, he played with the Pioneers. He currently holds the school's record for most goals in a single season: 21. Rooney began his professional career in 1994 with", "id": "327338" }, { "contents": "Wayne Rooney\n\n\nWayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles. He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United. At club level, he has won every honour available in English, European and Continental football, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup. Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the", "id": "20357111" }, { "contents": "Mark Rooney\n\n\nMark Rooney (born 13 December 1983) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker. He is the elder brother of Adam Rooney. Rooney began his senior career at Dublin City before joining UCD in 2003 where he broke into the Student's first team. Rooney only stayed at Belfield Park for one season before joining his former manager at UCD, Paul Doolin at Drogheda United in 2004. Despite a difficult season for him personally, only scoring one league goal in 22 appearances, Rooney was part of the Drogheda United", "id": "21841504" }, { "contents": "Bobby Rooney\n\n\nRobert Rooney (8 July 1938 – 9 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who made 47 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City. He played as a winger. Rooney was born in Cowie, Stirling, and began his football career with Clydebank Juniors in his native Scotland before joining English Second Division club Sheffield United in 1958. He played occasionally in his first two seasons with the club, but not thereafter. In the 1962–63 season, he was registered with three clubs:", "id": "776620" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Gabriel\n\n\nJames Gabriel (born 10 October 1940) is a Scottish former football midfielder, who earned two caps with the Scotland national football team. Chiefly associated with English club Everton, Gabriel played extensively in Scotland and England before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach in both England and the USA, where he lives today. Jimmy Gabriel first came to the attention of Dundee when he played at right-half for the Scotland under-15 schoolboys in an international at Dens Park.", "id": "5028700" }, { "contents": "Con Boutsianis\n\n\nConstantinos \"Con\" Boutsianis (born 27 December 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former international, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Boutsianis began his career with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in 1989, and soon established himself as a goalscoring midfielder. He left South at the end of the 1994/95 season to join Heidelberg United for the 1996 Victorian Premier League season, before joining Collingwood Warriors for their one and only season in the NSL. Following the club's demise at", "id": "4070407" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\nSteven Laurie (born 30 October 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who played as a defender. He played in England with West Ham United's youth academy and Peterborough United, before returning to Australia to play for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League and Sydney FC in the A-League. He is currently the head manager of Geelong SC. Steve Laurie started his professional youth career with the Victorian Institute of Sport, spending a year at the academy in 1997", "id": "21322154" }, { "contents": "David Jones (footballer, born 1955)\n\n\nDavid Jones (born 1 April 1955 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian former soccer player and coach. Jones played his junior soccer for Kwinana United before graduating to the senior team in 1970. He remained with the club until the end of the 1975 season, where he won the Rothmans Gold Medal award for the season's fairest and best player. In 1976 Jones played for East Fremantle Tricolore. In the first year of the National Soccer League in 1977 he played for West Adelaide and was part of the club", "id": "12543554" }, { "contents": "Luke Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nLuke William Rooney (born 28 December 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and is a free agent after leaving his most recent club, Welling United. Born in Bermondsey, London, Rooney joined Gillingham as an apprentice professional in 2007. He forced his way into the first team squad in early December 2008 and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup second round replay at Stockport County. In early 2009 he was loaned out to Lewes of the Conference National, where he made six appearances. He turned", "id": "6731049" }, { "contents": "Preston Lions FC\n\n\nthe Year Bill Fleming Medal – Media voted VPL Player of the Year Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year Victorian Premier League Under 21 Player of the Year Jimmy Rooney Medal – VPL Grand Final Man of the Match Weinstein Medal Junior Player of the Year Australian Representatives – Senior Level National Representatives – Youth Team Victorian State Representatives – Senior Level ● Preston Makedonia Inaugural season *Victorian Provisional League* 1959 - 4th - 10 Teams in League. ● Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2", "id": "19353574" }, { "contents": "Bob Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nRobert “Bob” Rooney was a U.S. soccer center forward who spent his playing career in the St. Louis leagues. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957. Rooney grew up in the Dogtown area of St. Louis, attending St. James Grade School and St. Louis University High School. As a youth, he played both football and baseball in addition to soccer spending five seasons with a St. Louis Cardinals farm team. Even while playing in the local St. Louis soccer leagues, Rooney earned a living as a", "id": "2939914" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\n, before moving to England, joining the youth academy of West Ham United F.C. in 1998. Laurie remained with the Hammers academy until 2002, then moving to Peterborough United F.C.. He returned to Australia after being lured back by former Rangers F.C. player and then coach Stuart Munro to play for National Soccer League powerhouse South Melbourne FC in the last season of the NSL. Laurie was one of the first six signings for the newly formed Hyundai A-League club Sydney FC, although later he was released from his contract via mutual", "id": "21322155" }, { "contents": "William McLachlan (footballer)\n\n\nWilliam McLachlan (born 19 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Airdrie United and for Australian club Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. McLachlan began his career with Rangers and appeared for the Scotland U-16 team in a Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland in October 2004. In December 2008, he joined Airdrie United on loan. He made his debut against St Johnstone on 20 December.", "id": "18351658" }, { "contents": "Joe Montemurro\n\n\nJoseph Adrian Montemurro (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian former soccer player, currently the manager of Arsenal Women. Montemurro played as a midfielder during his short professional career, mainly in Italy, before returning to Australia to play in the Victorian state leagues. He began coaching in youth football for various Victorian clubs, before his first managerial role with Sunshine George Cross, and then later, Coburg United. His first job abroad came in 2013, spending four months as the inaugural manager of Papa New Guinean side Port Moresby", "id": "14957118" }, { "contents": "Tommy Rooney\n\n\nTommy Rooney (born 30 December 1984) is an English footballer who played for League Two club Macclesfield Town during the 2004–05 season as a striker and later played non-league football for Vauxhall Motors. Tommy, who is the cousin of Wayne, John and Graeme Rooney, began his career at Tranmere Rovers, where he played in the youth and reserve sides but did not break into the first-team. He joined League Two club Macclesfield Town in May 2004 on a one-year contract and made two league and cup", "id": "9458597" }, { "contents": "Steven Weir\n\n\nSteven Weir (born 3 October 1988) is a Scottish Junior footballer who plays as a striker for West of Scotland Super League Premier Division club Arthurlie. Born in Harthill, Scotland, he started his career with Livingston, where he also spent a spell on loan at Cowdenbeath. He joined Arbroath before moving to Australia where he played for North Eastern Soccer League side, Shepparton South. He scored 28 goals in 12 games in his first season with the club, and played his first match for the team four hours after arriving", "id": "18510479" }, { "contents": "Jimmy McDonnell\n\n\nJames McDonnell (1927 – 30 September 2017) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team spanned three decades from 1948 until 1960. Born in Darver, County Louth, McDonnell first played competitive Gaelic football with the Darver Volunteers club. He won a junior league medal in 1952 before winning a county junior championship medal in 1956. From 1961 onward McDonnell played with the newly-formed St. Joseph's club. McDonnell made his debut with the Louth senior team during", "id": "4115167" }, { "contents": "Sean Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nSean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the", "id": "16687041" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)\n\n\nJames E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee, and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock. Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928. In a five-and-a-half-year career with", "id": "9343677" }, { "contents": "Dylan Murnane\n\n\nDylan Murnane (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a left back for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. In 2012, Murnane was a member of the Port Melbourne SC side that won promotion to the Victorian Premier League and reached the final of the State Knockout Cup, before he was recruited by the Melbourne Victory Youth team. After initially joining the club as member of the youth team in late 2012, Murnane made his professional debut with home town giants Melbourne Victory against Sydney", "id": "12515687" }, { "contents": "Jim Tansey\n\n\nJim Tansey (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian former association football player. The son of Everton footballer Jimmy Tansey, Tansey was born in Liverpool, England in 1953. He emigrated to Australia in 1974. Tansey began his senior playing career for South Liverpool F.C.. After moving to Australia, he played for Slavia Melbourne in the Victorian State League. With the start of the National Soccer League (NSL), Tansey moved to Fitzroy United Alexander. He later played for NSL club Footscray JUST. Between 1975 and 1981", "id": "10339389" }, { "contents": "Ray McKinnon (footballer)\n\n\nRaymond McKinnon (born 5 August 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the manager of Falkirk. As a player, McKinnon was a midfielder whose clubs included Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Aberdeen, Livingston, Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also represented the Scotland under-21 team. McKinnon began his managerial career in junior football with Lochee United before managing senior clubs Brechin City, Raith Rovers, Dundee United, Morton and left just three months later for Falkirk. McKinnon was born in Dundee on 5 August", "id": "4406705" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Douglas (Canadian soccer)\n\n\nJimmy Douglas (born October 6, 1948 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish-Canadian soccer midfielder and head coach. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League and earned fourteen caps for the Canadian national soccer team. Born in Scotland, Douglas moved to Canada in 1964 when he was sixteen. He almost immediately began playing for St. Catharines Heidelberg in the National Soccer League and by 1970 was in the first team. In 1974, he played in the North American Soccer League with the Toronto Metros before returning", "id": "12329068" }, { "contents": "Gary Hasler\n\n\nGary Hasler (born 5 May 1970) is an Australian former association football player. he played in the National Soccer League for Sunshine George Cross and South Melbourne. In international football, he made two appearances for Australia and also represented the country at the 1992 Olympics. Hasler joined Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League in 1989. In 1992, he joined South Melbourne. After two seasons he moved to Heidelberg in the Victorian Premier League. Hasler was a member of the Australian squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In", "id": "18353802" }, { "contents": "Sebastian Ryall\n\n\nSebastian \"Seb\" Ryall (born 18 July 1989) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender, most recently for Sydney FC. Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Football Club in Sydney. Ryall later played for the AIS in the Victorian Premier League before signing for Melbourne Victory on a 2-year contract in August 2007. He made his first appearance for the club in their round 3 match against Adelaide United and played in their Grand Final win over Adelaide in March 2009. In April 2009", "id": "1237851" }, { "contents": "Cameron Watson (footballer)\n\n\nCameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side Moreland Zebras FC. Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move", "id": "15681415" }, { "contents": "Jack Ross (footballer, born 1976)\n\n\nJohn James Ross (born 5 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the manager of English League One club Sunderland. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He", "id": "9812399" }, { "contents": "Jesse Daley\n\n\nJesse Daley (born 16 October 1997) is an Australian soccer player who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship. Daley spent time at Queensland Academy of Sport, before playing with the youth team at Brisbane Roar, before spending time with Melbourne Victory following his release from the club, before again playing with Brisbane Roar. Daley joined National Premier Leagues Victoria side South Melbourne FC ahead of their 2017 season. He left the club in January 2018, joining National Premier League side Lions FC. Following a trial, Daley", "id": "13637473" }, { "contents": "Steven Pace\n\n\nSteven Pace (born 6 March 1983) is an Australian footballer who plays for Heidelberg United FC. Earlier in his career, Pace played for various Victorian teams, including South Melbourne, Essendon Royals and the Preston Lions. He has been described as a \"utility\" player, having played as a midfielder as well as a central defender. He played in the latter position for the Preston Lions in their successful 2007 campaign, when they won the Victorian Premier League Championship. When the Melbourne Victory signed Pace in October 2007,", "id": "2478195" }, { "contents": "Evans Rusike\n\n\nEvans Rusike (born 13 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for Premier Soccer League side Supersport United in South Africa. He also plays for the Zimbabwe national team. Rusike began his career in Zimbabwe with Kiglon in 2010, before moving to Zimbabwe Saints in 2012. Three years later, in 2015, he left his homeland for the first time as he agreed to join South African Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United. His league debut came on 22 August against Ajax Cape Town. At the end", "id": "8298403" }, { "contents": "Tarek Elrich\n\n\nTarek Elrich (born 1 January 1987) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a right back and midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League. Elrich was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his senior career with Sydney Olympic, before moving to Newcastle Jets in 2006. In 2012, he moved to new club Western Sydney Wanderers before moving again to Adelaide United one season later. Tarek played youth football for Australia, before being called up to the Lebanon national team in 2012.", "id": "21014072" }, { "contents": "Dominic Smith (footballer)\n\n\nDominic Rooney Smith (born 22 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Northern Premier League North Division side Droylsden. He began his career with Crewe Alexandra, where he progressed through the club's Academy, but failed to make a first team appearance. He joined Colchester United in 2014, where he made his Football League debut in September 2014. He had a brief loan spell at A.F.C. Hornchurch, before leaving Colchester after the expiry of his one-year deal. He has since represented numerous Northern", "id": "18972781" }, { "contents": "Dave Harding\n\n\nDavid Harding (born 14 August 1946) is a former football (soccer) midfielder. He played for Wrexham from 1965 to 1966, then South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, before moving to Australia where he played for Pan Hellenic, Western Suburbs, Blacktown City and APIA until 1981. In this time he won NSW representative honours in 1974 against Bristol Rovers. Harding was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany and represented Australia 45 times between 1974 and 1977 scoring 11 times. More recently he", "id": "3031486" }, { "contents": "George Howard (footballer)\n\n\nGeorge Howard (born 8 October 1996) is an English-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker. George Howard moved to Australia with his family aged 1 or 15 from England where he had participated in the Sheffield United Academy, and was playing senior football for then fourth tier Victorian State League Division 1 side Eastern Lions by age 16. Howard joined National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 club Box Hill United in 2014, and was recruited to the Melbourne Victory Youth squad by Darren Davies in 2015. He trialled with the", "id": "12301976" }, { "contents": "George Slifkas\n\n\nGeorge Slifkas (born 18 October 1969) is an Australian former association football player. Slifkas played for Preston Makedonia, Heidelberg United and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s he dropped down to the Victorian Premier League where he played for the Bulleen Lions, the Thomastown Zebras and the Melbourne Raiders. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Slifkas played four matches as Australia placed fourth. In 1993 Slifkas made his first and only international appearance for Australia as a substitute in a match against", "id": "18566415" }, { "contents": "Luciano Trani\n\n\nLuciano Trani (born 10 August 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former football (soccer) player who was most recently the manager of National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side North Geelong Warriors FC. Trani began coaching at the Victorian Premier League and National Soccer League levels with the Fawkner Blues, Essendon Royals, Whittlesea Stallions, Brisbane Strikers and the Melbourne Knights. He then took up roles as a coaching instructor for Football Federation Victoria and Head Coach of Pascoe Vale FC, before joining Wellington Phoenix. He then transferred to", "id": "3270514" }, { "contents": "Touk Miller\n\n\n. Such was his talent, he was selected to represent the under 15 Victorian state cricket team at the national championships in March 2011 and made his first XI debut for the North Melbourne Cricket Club at the Junction Oval in December 2011 before electing to focus on football the following year. Miller played all of his junior years with the Maribyrnong Park Lions in the Essendon District Football League and made his senior debut for the club in 2011 at the age of 15. He played junior football for both St Kevin's College in the", "id": "17982973" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Bullard\n\n\nJames Richard Bullard (born 23 October 1978) is an English former footballer, coach and television presenter. He is currently co-host of the Saturday morning Sky TV show Soccer AM. As a player he was a midfielder and played youth football at West Ham United before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet in 1998. Two seasons at Peterborough United was followed by a spell at Wigan Athletic where he scored ten goals in 145 league appearances, helping them to their first promotion to the Premier League. Bullard was known for being a", "id": "8289895" }, { "contents": "Kieran Dover\n\n\nKieran Dover is an Australian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Green Gully in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. From Stockton-on-Tees, Dover started his career at the youth team of Sunderland before moving to Australia at the age of twelve, where he joined the youth ranks at Berwick City. He then eventually went on to join Dandenong Thunder of the NPL Victoria where he was named Winning Edge Presentations Rising Star of the Month in August. He also played for the Melbourne Victory youth sides in", "id": "8333803" }, { "contents": "Andrew Robertson\n\n\nAndrew Robertson (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. Robertson began his senior career with Queen's Park in 2012 before joining Dundee United a year later. His form in his first season as a professional led to him being named SPFA Young Player of the Year and also making his international debut. He joined Hull City in July 2014 for a fee of £2.85 million, before joining Liverpool in July 2017 for an", "id": "17961904" }, { "contents": "Steve Hayward\n\n\nSteve Hayward (born 8 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder in a sixteen-year career spanning from 1988 to 2004. Born in Pelsall near Walsall, Hayward began his career with Derby County and made his League debut in 1990, but found first-team opportunities limited. He joined Carlisle United in 1994 and won two promotions from Division Three and the 1997 Football League Trophy Final during his time at the club before moving to Fulham in 1997. He played a role in Fulham", "id": "6088205" }, { "contents": "Vince Lia\n\n\nVince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Adelaide United in the A-League. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior debut with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League. He spent one season with Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues in 2005 before joining Melbourne Victory in 2005 to play in the newly-formed A-League. Lia next spent a decade at Wellington Phoenix, making over 200 appearances for the club in all competitions. He", "id": "5478442" }, { "contents": "Peter Stone (footballer)\n\n\nPeter Stone (born 30 September 1954) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Stone played his junior football for Adamstown before playing for Western Suburbs in the New South Wales state league (1973–1976) and the National Soccer League (1977). In 1978, he moved to APIA Leichhardt, where he played three NSL seasons. Stone moved to St. George in 1980 where he played two seasons. Stone made his international debut for Australia in 1976 against Hong Kong. He also played over in England for Tottenham Hotspur", "id": "5877228" }, { "contents": "Sean Cranney\n\n\nSean Cranney (born 2 October 1973) is an Australian former association football player. Cranney played for Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club before joining Brisbane United in the Queensland state league in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was signed to National Soccer League team Brisbane Strikers. At the Strikers he played five seasons before moving to Northern Spirit for the 1990/2000 season. Cranney played for Australia at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Cranney made his full international debut in November 1996 for Australia in an OFC Nations Cup match against New", "id": "18125994" }, { "contents": "Derek Spalding\n\n\nDerek Spalding (born 20 December 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former soccer player, who played as a defender. Spalding played for Hibernian in the Scottish Football League until he emigrated to the United States in 1977. He then played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least two in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the US national team, in 1982. Growing up in Scotland, Spalding signed with First Division club Hibernian as a youth player. He worked his way", "id": "11180604" }, { "contents": "Ross Barkley\n\n\n23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 but did not appear in any of England's matches. Managers and teammates have compared his style of play to those of Michael Ballack, Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Barkley was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. He joined Everton as an 11-year-old and played for the club's youth teams. He was named as a substitute in a first team league match in early 2010–11, and was expected to make his Premier League debut before his leg was broken in one place after a collision with", "id": "7578236" }, { "contents": "Erick Chipeta\n\n\nErick Chipeta (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Zimbabwe national team. Chipeta started his career in Zimbabwe with Hwange Colliery, where he remained for two years before leaving his homeland for South Africa for the first time. 2014 saw Chipeta join newly promoted Premier Soccer League side Chippa United. He made his debut for Chippa in a 1–1 draw at home to Mamelodi Sundowns on 22 October. In total he made 18 appearances and scored 1 goal in his first season", "id": "6134269" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\nShaun Antony Rooney (born 26 July 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Rooney has previously played for Queen's Park, Dunfermline Athletic, York City and Queen of the South. Rooney was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. Rooney started his career playing youth football with Bellshill Boys Club and Dundee United, before signing with Scottish League Two club Queen's Park in July 2013. Rooney's first-team debut came shortly after signing for the club, in", "id": "16210765" }, { "contents": "Robert Trajkovski\n\n\nRobert Trajkovski (born 24 July 1972) is an Australian former footballer. Trajkovski began his senior career with Altona before moving to National Soccer League team Melbourne City. After a season with Melbourne City Trajkovski transferred to Sydney United. He played two season for United between 1995 and 1997. In the 1997/98 season Trajkovski played for Carlton, playing 22 matches. Trajkovski moved to Perth Glory for the 1998/99 season. After playing 73 matches over three seasons for the Glory he moved to Northern Spirit where he saw out his top flight career", "id": "5112927" }, { "contents": "Sasa Macura\n\n\nSasa Macura is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Manly United in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Macura played youth football for Northern Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Bonnyrigg White Eagles before moving to Hungary. There, he made his professional debut for MTK Budapest as well as playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II for MTK's reserve team and Szigetszentmiklósi. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for Blacktown City. He moved to Manly United in 2017. Macura was born in", "id": "14725944" }, { "contents": "Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)\n\n\nPhilip Anthony Jones (born 21 February 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Manchester United and the English national team. Before joining Manchester United, Jones played for Blackburn Rovers at both youth and senior levels. Although primarily a centre-back, he has also been used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Jones has represented England at various levels and is currently a member of the England senior squad. He played for the under-19 team in 2009 before making his debut for the under-21 team in 2010", "id": "13966664" }, { "contents": "Paul Bilokapic\n\n\nPaul Bilokapic (born 8 August 1976) is an Australian former soccer player. He played as a midfielder. After playing youth football for Yaralla, he moved to Sydney Croatia (later Sydney United) where he played until the end of the 1997–98 National Soccer League season. After two seasons with Northern Spirit FC, he returned to Sydney United, where he played until the end of the 2002–03 National Soccer League season. Bilokapic made his full international debut for Australia in February 1998 in a friendly match against Chile. He made", "id": "10116884" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875)\n\n\nJames Jackson (15 September 1875 – after 1914) was a footballer who played as a full back or at wing half. Jackson's family emigrated from Scotland to Australia where he was raised and where he began his senior football career while still in his early teens. He returned to Scotland in 1893, appearing in Junior football and briefly for Rangers before moving to England to join Newcastle United. Two years later he signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he spent six seasons, captaining the club in its inaugural season in the Football League", "id": "19786821" }, { "contents": "David Carney\n\n\nDavid Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC. Born in Sydney, he began his playing career with the New South Wales Institute of Sport before moving to England to join Everton. Having failed to break into the Everton first team he then moved to Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical in Scotland before returning to his native Australia. After a successful spell with Sydney FC, Carney then returned to England, signing with Sheffield United before", "id": "3576647" }, { "contents": "John Pritchard (footballer)\n\n\nJohn Vincent Pritchard (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Ashton United. Pritchard was in his youth a trainee by Manchester United, before joined in April 2012 to Oldham Athletic. He made his debut for Oldham Athletic on 21 December 2013 in a 2–0 defeat to Colchester United at Boundary Park, he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Adam Rooney. After two seasons was released and joined in August 2014 to FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League", "id": "278653" }, { "contents": "APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC\n\n\nhistory of the club when skipper Jimmy Rooney and centreforward Peter Ollerton, who scored five goals, won 9–1 against Auburn in front of a crowd of 5210 at Wentworth Park, the highest finals result ever. Rooney and Ollerton were also in the team that represented Australia a few months later in its first World Cup participation in Germany. In 1979 APIA was given access to the National Soccer League, the top tier of Australian soccer since 1977. In 1987 APIA won the national championship, six points ahead of the Preston Makedonia Soccer", "id": "17492652" }, { "contents": "Ante Moric\n\n\nAnte Tomislav Moric (born 19 April 1974) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Leagues Victoria side Dandenong City SC. Moric played at club level in Australia and Croatia for St. George, AIS, Sydney United, Zadar, Canberra Cosmos, Sydney Olympic, Fraser Park, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Rockdale City Suns. He also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After a stint with the youth side of National Premier Leagues NSW 2 side St George", "id": "5169013" }, { "contents": "John May (Australian footballer)\n\n\nJohn May (born 15 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). May was recruited to play for Essendon's under-19s from West Coburg in the Essendon District Football League. In 1970, his second season with the under-19s, he was named captain and also played several matches in the reserves before making his senior VFL debut late in the season. He kicked one goal from his three games playing as a midfielder and stayed with Essendon for another year, but", "id": "16685305" }, { "contents": "Andrew Fox (footballer)\n\n\nAndrew Thomas Philip Fox (born 15 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fox began his playing career during his time at university, playing football in the USA for 4 years with St. Edward's University Soccer Team. After a short spell at Texan club Midland/Odessa Sockers, Fox moved back to England in July 2015, where he joined League One side Peterborough United on a free transfer. He joined National League side Kidderminster Harriers on loan", "id": "3891979" }, { "contents": "Petar Franjic\n\n\nPetar Franjic (born 7 April 1992) is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Avondale FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Franjic joined the Melbourne Knights FC under 21 squad in 2009 after spending a number of years with the Victorian Institute of Sport. That year, he made his breakthrough into senior football, making six appearances for the first team in the Victorian Premier League in the first half of the season. He was then picked up by A-League side Melbourne Victory FC, initially with the youth team.", "id": "1076969" }, { "contents": "Jacob Burns (soccer)\n\n\nJacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory. Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay. His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October", "id": "5439205" }, { "contents": "Zander Diamond\n\n\nAlexander Kevin \"Zander\" Diamond (born 12 March 1985) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He began his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen, before moving to Oldham Athletic in 2011; he later played for Burton Albion, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town in England. He won eleven caps for Scotland under-21s. Raised in the west of Scotland in Dumbarton, Alexandria-born Diamond graduated from the youth team at Aberdeen in his first full season and made his League debut against Dundee", "id": "20263817" }, { "contents": "Hilton Kotzur\n\n\nHilton Kotzur (born 20 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kotzur represented New South Wales as a junior, but was also a member of the Victorian team which won the 1981 Teal Cup, earning All-Australian honours He joined the Swans when they were still based in Melbourne and played both Under-19s and reserves football for the club, before he fractured two vertebrae in 1982. The back injury stalled his career and it was not until", "id": "20658877" }, { "contents": "Christopher Forrester\n\n\nChristopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland Premier Division. He has also previously played for Bohemians, Peterborough United, Aberdeen and the Republic of Ireland under-21's. In March 2016 he was called up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad but has yet to be capped. Forrester started his schoolboy career with his local team, Smithfield, where he stayed for three seasons. He played for Bohemians for three seasons before", "id": "3737210" }, { "contents": "James Meyer (footballer)\n\n\nJames Meyer (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Queensland club Brisbane City. Born in Sydney, Meyer started his youth career with Brisbane City FC in 2005. The following year Meyer went to Europe and signed on as a youth player for Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and then Hertha BSC of Germany the next year. He then returned to Australia in 2008 to play for Olympic FC of the Queensland State League before joining Eastern Suburbs F.C. of the Brisbane Premier League", "id": "21300581" }, { "contents": "Billy Ions\n\n\nRooney and Spanish forward Fernando Torres to whom he compared himself to. Ions first started playing football in the youth team of the local village of Valle de San Lorenzo in Tenerife, named \"Constanza\". Years later he started to play in the football school of Juan Miguel. At the age of 15, Ions joined the youth setup at CD Tenerife. In February 2010, he returned to England to join Newcastle United, the club he supported as a child. He made his Under-18's debut in a home match against", "id": "2185330" }, { "contents": "Jason Geria\n\n\nJason Kato Geria (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for JEF United Chiba in the J2 League and for the Australia national team. Born in Canberra, Geria played youth football with the Australian Institute of Sport and Brisbane Roar youth before joining Melbourne Victory in 2012, where he made his professional debut and played for five years. Geria was born in Canberra to Ugandan parents. Geria's first youth club was Weston Creek SC in Canberra. He also played in", "id": "13593993" }, { "contents": "Vincent Bezecourt\n\n\nVincent Bezecourt (born 10 June 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Bezecourt began his football career in France with Jeunesse Villenavaise and made his debut with the first team during the 2012 season in Championnat de France amateur. In two season with the first team, he appeared in 52 league matches scoring 9 goals. In 2014, he went to the United States to play College soccer for St. Francis Brooklyn under head coach Tom Giovatto. In his first", "id": "7942392" }, { "contents": "Oliver Puflett\n\n\nOliver Puflett (born 26 July 1999) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a striker for S.League club Home United. Puflett started his career with the Western Sydney Wanderers FC, playing for its Under-21 team, scoring 5 goals in 11 games over 2 years. He also won the Y-League title in the 2017-18 season with them. He played for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC Under-21 squad before signing his first professional contract and joining Singapore Premier League side Home United FC in March 2019. He then made", "id": "9045653" }, { "contents": "Massimo Luongo\n\n\nMassimo Corey Luongo ( ; born 25 September 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Queens Park Rangers and the Australian national team. Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Queens Park Rangers in 2015. Luongo has played for the Australia", "id": "15251787" }, { "contents": "Graham Moss\n\n\nGraham Moss (born 14 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who was highly successful in both the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a Brownlow Medal-winning ruckman and played 343 senior games in the WAFL and VFL. Moss debuted for Claremont Football Club in the WAFL in 1969. In 1970, he made his debut for the Western Australian state team. Essendon attempted to lure him to Melbourne several times, and finally succeeded before the", "id": "15698753" }, { "contents": "Luke Power\n\n\nLuke Power (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). A member of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premiership winning teams, he played 282 games for the Lions before moving to Greater Western Sydney where he played his final season. He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Giants. Power debuted for the Lions as an 18-year-old in 1998, and he has", "id": "12553548" }, { "contents": "Robert Ironside (footballer)\n\n\nRobert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His club career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Sydney Olympic in the Australian National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to Newcastle Breakers He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle Ironside made his All White debut in a 1-1", "id": "19673589" }, { "contents": "James Jeggo\n\n\nJames Alexander Jeggo ( ; born 12 February 1992) is an Austrian-born Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a central midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and the Australian national team. Born in Vienna, Austria, Jeggo moved to Australia as a child, where he started his footballing career in youth football with Green Gully and at the Victorian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Melbourne Victory. Jeggo was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Australia as a child, growing", "id": "5614644" }, { "contents": "Jason Trifiro\n\n\nJason Trifiro (born 3 June 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Nunawading City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. Trifiro started his career in the semi-professional lower leagues in Australia, playing in New South Wales for National Premier Leagues NSW clubs Marconi Stallions, APIA Leichhardt and the South Coast Wolves. In 2011, he moved to Victoria where he played the 2011 Victorian Premier League with Northcote alongside his brother, before they both moved to ex-NSL heavyweight South Melbourne in the National", "id": "7283672" }, { "contents": "Stephen Glass (footballer)\n\n\nStephen Glass (born 23 May 1976) is a former Scottish professional footballer who is the current head coach of Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship. A midfielder, Glass started his career at Aberdeen, with whom he won the 1995 Scottish League Cup. In 1998, he moved to England, transferring to Newcastle United of the Premier League. Shortly after joining Newcastle, Glass made an appearance for the Scotland national football team. He joined Watford in the First Division in 2001, before returning to Scotland in 2003 with Hibernian", "id": "19685891" }, { "contents": "Stephen O'Donnell (footballer, born 1983)\n\n\nStephen James O'Donnell (born 10 July 1983) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career with Dundee United, making his debut in 2002. He spent time on loan with Ross County before leaving Dundee United in 2005 to play briefly in England with Boston United. Returning to Scottish football, O'Donnell had spells with Clyde and St Mirren before joining Dundee in 2010, where he later became club captain. He rejoined Clyde in 2014 and left the club in 2015. He was a Scotland under-20 international", "id": "10873501" }, { "contents": "Brian Robinson (soccer)\n\n\nBrian Robinson (born 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He started playing at the age of ten with the Evening Optimist Club in his home town and later starred in the Victoria High School team that reached the B.C. High School final in 1966. At 17 he was playing for Vic West in the Victoria City League where he played for two years before joining Victoria United in the Pacific Coast League. By 1970 he was playing in the Western Canada Soccer League", "id": "11330905" }, { "contents": "Daniel McBreen\n\n\nDaniel James McBreen (born 23 April 1977) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW club Edgeworth, and is a coach with Newcastle Jets U15. Born in England, McBreen moved to Australia with his family when he was six weeks old and started his career in local football with Toronto Awaba Stags and Edgeworth Eagles. He earned a professional contract with National Soccer League club Newcastle United in 2000, where he played for two seasons before joining Universitatea Craiova of the Romanian Divizia A.", "id": "9649312" }, { "contents": "Tomislav Uskok\n\n\nTomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney United in the National Premier Leagues. Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club Melbourne Knights. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined Victorian State League Division 1 side St Albans Saints for the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014", "id": "8367993" }, { "contents": "Austin Berry (soccer)\n\n\nthe newly-formed club FC Cincinnati in the lower division United Soccer League. He served as FC Cincinnati's team captain for two seasons before retiring from his playing career and accepting a position as the club's strength and conditioning coach. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended the Summit Country Day School for high school where he played four fall seasons of soccer. With a 14–1–1 record during his senior year, Berry contributed 10 goals, 6 assists, and led his team to the Regional finals. He earned first team", "id": "19581628" }, { "contents": "Gary Smith (footballer, born 1968)\n\n\nGary Neil Smith (born 3 December 1968) is an English former footballer. He is currently Head Coach & Technical Director of Nashville SC in the United Soccer League, the second tier in the US soccer pyramid. Smith's playing career began at Fulham, progressing through the youth team before making one first-team appearance for the club. After a brief spell with Colchester United, Smith joined non-league side Enfield in 1989. His most successful spell during his playing days was at Wycombe Wanderers, spending two seasons with", "id": "686418" }, { "contents": "Lee Scroggins\n\n\nLeepaul Scroggins (born 23 October 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for South Shields. Scroggins began his career with Darlington, but moved on to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Blyth Spartans in 2001 without having played for Darlington's first team. He spent just over a year with Spartans, before joining Whitley Bay of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. Scroggins then moved to the United States, where he had a successful college soccer career at Lynn University, graduating in Sports Recreation", "id": "8969031" }, { "contents": "Brad Smith (footballer, born 1948)\n\n\nBrad R. Smith (born 3 December 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also had a long career in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) where he played for East Perth and coached East Fremantle. Smith was a late comer to VFL football as he had spent eight years at East Perth before joining North Melbourne. He was a member of East Perth's 1972 and 1978 premiership teams and a back pocket player in", "id": "8985200" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Dunne (footballer, born 1997)\n\n\nJames Gerard Dunne (born 19 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Burnley. Dunne played locally in Ireland before joining the youth set-up at Manchester United in 2007. After transferring to Burnley in 2016, he spent time on loan at Barrow (where he made his senior debut in August 2017) and Accrington Stanley (where he made his Football League debut in January 2018). Born in Dundalk Dunne began his career with St Kevin's Boys Club before joining the Manchester", "id": "18334762" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\na Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Ayr United at Hampden Park. During the 2013–14 season, Rooney made 11 appearances for Queen's Park. His breakthrough season came in 2014–15, when he played in 30 matches, scoring his first goal on 15 November 2014 with a header against Elgin City in a 4–1 win. Rooney's impressive performances for Queen's Park saw him awarded the club's Young Player of the Year and also being named in the PFA Scotland Scottish League Two Team of the Year. The start of 2015–16 saw Rooney", "id": "16210766" }, { "contents": "Jonas Salley\n\n\nGyawe Jonas Salley (born 16 March 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a former Ivorian-Australian footballer, who last played for Hohhot Zhongyou in China League One. He is currently an assistant coach for Qingdao Red Lions. Salley moved to Australia to escape from the civil and government problems of his home country in 2006. He first played at Mill Park Soccer Club, where his outstanding performances were noticed within a very short time. He was eventually signed up to play with Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne. He was then", "id": "20136861" }, { "contents": "Alan Green (soccer)\n\n\nAlan Green (born 1 January 1954) is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Green, a native of Worcester, England, began his professional career with Coventry City. He joined the club as a striker in 1970, but did not make his first team debut until April 22, 1972, which was", "id": "15514446" }, { "contents": "Tommy Kelly (footballer)\n\n\nTommy Kelly was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A dynamic midfielder, he is quite simply a Bohemian F.C. legend, his career at Dalymount Park spanning 3 different decades. He appeared in a club record 19 games in European competition and won 2 League of Ireland titles. He joined Bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the \"B\" team. He made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over Drogheda on April 10, 1966.", "id": "14451234" }, { "contents": "Kevin Egan\n\n\nKevin Egan (born 10 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and played in Essendon's 1965 premiership team. Egan was used mostly as a rover and wingman. After leaving Essendon Egan spent some time at both South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide and the Victorian", "id": "1551420" }, { "contents": "Kenny Hill (association footballer)\n\n\nKenneth George Hill (born 7 March 1953) is an English former association football defender who played professionally in England and the North American Soccer League. In 1971, he joined Gillingham, playing 125 league matches before leaving the team for the United States in 1974. That year, he signed with the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He also played for Maidstone United, where he began his career, Lincoln City, with whom he made a single appearance in", "id": "347314" }, { "contents": "Ray Farningham\n\n\nRay Farningham (born 10 April 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder for a handful of Scottish clubs. He previously managed Forfar Athletic, Montrose and was the assistant manager of Dundee. Ray is now assistant manager at junior side Lochee United F.C. Farningham trained as a youth with Dundee United before beginning his senior career with Forfar Athletic, making his debut towards the end of the 1970s. In his seven years at Station Park, Farningham was part of the sides which won the 1983–84 Scottish Second", "id": "3703221" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Kirk\n\n\nJames Kirk (born 12 November 1925) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Bury, Colchester United, Torquay United and Aldershot. Born in Tarbolton, Kirk began his career in Scotland with St Mirren, where he made 86 league appearances for the club, before moving to England to play for Bury, where he featured in 79 Football League matches. Kirk joined Colchester United in 1954 and spent one season with the club, making his", "id": "21920041" }, { "contents": "Gary Crouch\n\n\nGary Crouch (born 27 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After leaving Essendon, Crouch played for Rochester for one season before moving to Western Australia and joining Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He spent four seasons with Subiaco, playing on half back flank in the 1973 WAFL winning Grand Final team. He then moved back to Victoria to the Bendigo Football League (BFL). Crouch played one season with South Bendigo and", "id": "16878056" }, { "contents": "Neil Jenkins (footballer)\n\n\nNeil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Leatherhead F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team. Born in Carshalton, London, Jenkins joined the Essex based team Southend United in July 2002, on a one", "id": "9293884" }, { "contents": "John Reilly (footballer, born 1962)\n\n\nJohn Reilly (born 21 March 1962 in Dundee) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Reilly began his career with Dundee United, signing as a schoolboy from Strathtay Boys Club in 1979. He played for the Scotland Under 17 and Under 18 professional youth sides before making his first team debut in August 1980. He was a member of the squad that won a Premier League Winners medal in season 1982–1983 before going onto score the club's first ever goal in the European Cup the following season. Signing", "id": "10817319" } ]

[ { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nJames Rooney (born 10 December 1945 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former association football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 FIFA World Cup squad in West Germany. Rooney was a left winger who played first team football with Lochee United, Peterborough United and Montrose F.C. in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1960s. He was an instant success there with Ukrainian Essendon Lions before transferring to Sydney to join the Prague club in 1970, and later playing at APIA Leichhardt, in", "id": "318576" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\n1974 FIFA World Cup campaign, earning himself many admirers for his hard tackling and ball distribution. The Jimmy Rooney Medal, awarded from 1992 onwards to the man of the match in the Victorian Premier League Grand Final, was named in his honour. He has recently settled to a managerial role of Victorian senior team, Eastern Lions, and also hosts a junior training program. He is also currently the head coach of the first eleven soccer team at St Kevin's College, Melbourne, Australia. In his second season in charge", "id": "318578" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nthe New South Wales First Division. In 1977, with APIA not joining the newly formed National Soccer League, Rooney joined Marconi Fairfield for two seasons, before moving back to Victoria where he played with Fitzroy Alexander and Croydon City Arrows. He made his Australian debut against a England XI in 1971, going on play 57 times for his country (although he also accrued caps in \"B\" team fixtures, bringing the total to 102) in a career spanning a decade. He was Australia's first choice midfielder in the", "id": "318577" }, { "contents": "Ronald Chitiyo\n\n\nRonald Chitiyo (born 10 June 1992), commonly known as Rooney, is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national team. Chitiyo, son of former footballer Frank Chitiyo, began his senior career with Douglas Warriors. Two years later, he would leave to join Monomotapa United, during his time with Monomotapa he finished as second runner-up in the 2012 Soccer Star of the Year award. In 2013, Chitiyo had trials at South African Premier Soccer League", "id": "230018" }, { "contents": "Jim Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nJim Rooney (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional soccer player who played as both a midfielder and a striker. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Soccer League team Boca Raton FC. Jim Rooney was born in The Bronx, New York City. Rooney played college soccer at Fordham University and C.W. Post. At C.W. Post, he played with the Pioneers. He currently holds the school's record for most goals in a single season: 21. Rooney began his professional career in 1994 with", "id": "327338" }, { "contents": "Wayne Rooney\n\n\nWayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles. He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United. At club level, he has won every honour available in English, European and Continental football, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup. Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the", "id": "20357111" }, { "contents": "Mark Rooney\n\n\nMark Rooney (born 13 December 1983) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker. He is the elder brother of Adam Rooney. Rooney began his senior career at Dublin City before joining UCD in 2003 where he broke into the Student's first team. Rooney only stayed at Belfield Park for one season before joining his former manager at UCD, Paul Doolin at Drogheda United in 2004. Despite a difficult season for him personally, only scoring one league goal in 22 appearances, Rooney was part of the Drogheda United", "id": "21841504" }, { "contents": "Bobby Rooney\n\n\nRobert Rooney (8 July 1938 – 9 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who made 47 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City. He played as a winger. Rooney was born in Cowie, Stirling, and began his football career with Clydebank Juniors in his native Scotland before joining English Second Division club Sheffield United in 1958. He played occasionally in his first two seasons with the club, but not thereafter. In the 1962–63 season, he was registered with three clubs:", "id": "776620" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Gabriel\n\n\nJames Gabriel (born 10 October 1940) is a Scottish former football midfielder, who earned two caps with the Scotland national football team. Chiefly associated with English club Everton, Gabriel played extensively in Scotland and England before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach in both England and the USA, where he lives today. Jimmy Gabriel first came to the attention of Dundee when he played at right-half for the Scotland under-15 schoolboys in an international at Dens Park.", "id": "5028700" }, { "contents": "Con Boutsianis\n\n\nConstantinos \"Con\" Boutsianis (born 27 December 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former international, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Boutsianis began his career with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in 1989, and soon established himself as a goalscoring midfielder. He left South at the end of the 1994/95 season to join Heidelberg United for the 1996 Victorian Premier League season, before joining Collingwood Warriors for their one and only season in the NSL. Following the club's demise at", "id": "4070407" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\nSteven Laurie (born 30 October 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who played as a defender. He played in England with West Ham United's youth academy and Peterborough United, before returning to Australia to play for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League and Sydney FC in the A-League. He is currently the head manager of Geelong SC. Steve Laurie started his professional youth career with the Victorian Institute of Sport, spending a year at the academy in 1997", "id": "21322154" }, { "contents": "David Jones (footballer, born 1955)\n\n\nDavid Jones (born 1 April 1955 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian former soccer player and coach. Jones played his junior soccer for Kwinana United before graduating to the senior team in 1970. He remained with the club until the end of the 1975 season, where he won the Rothmans Gold Medal award for the season's fairest and best player. In 1976 Jones played for East Fremantle Tricolore. In the first year of the National Soccer League in 1977 he played for West Adelaide and was part of the club", "id": "12543554" }, { "contents": "Luke Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nLuke William Rooney (born 28 December 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and is a free agent after leaving his most recent club, Welling United. Born in Bermondsey, London, Rooney joined Gillingham as an apprentice professional in 2007. He forced his way into the first team squad in early December 2008 and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup second round replay at Stockport County. In early 2009 he was loaned out to Lewes of the Conference National, where he made six appearances. He turned", "id": "6731049" }, { "contents": "Preston Lions FC\n\n\nthe Year Bill Fleming Medal – Media voted VPL Player of the Year Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year Victorian Premier League Under 21 Player of the Year Jimmy Rooney Medal – VPL Grand Final Man of the Match Weinstein Medal Junior Player of the Year Australian Representatives – Senior Level National Representatives – Youth Team Victorian State Representatives – Senior Level ● Preston Makedonia Inaugural season *Victorian Provisional League* 1959 - 4th - 10 Teams in League. ● Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2", "id": "19353574" }, { "contents": "Bob Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nRobert “Bob” Rooney was a U.S. soccer center forward who spent his playing career in the St. Louis leagues. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957. Rooney grew up in the Dogtown area of St. Louis, attending St. James Grade School and St. Louis University High School. As a youth, he played both football and baseball in addition to soccer spending five seasons with a St. Louis Cardinals farm team. Even while playing in the local St. Louis soccer leagues, Rooney earned a living as a", "id": "2939914" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\n, before moving to England, joining the youth academy of West Ham United F.C. in 1998. Laurie remained with the Hammers academy until 2002, then moving to Peterborough United F.C.. He returned to Australia after being lured back by former Rangers F.C. player and then coach Stuart Munro to play for National Soccer League powerhouse South Melbourne FC in the last season of the NSL. Laurie was one of the first six signings for the newly formed Hyundai A-League club Sydney FC, although later he was released from his contract via mutual", "id": "21322155" }, { "contents": "William McLachlan (footballer)\n\n\nWilliam McLachlan (born 19 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Airdrie United and for Australian club Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. McLachlan began his career with Rangers and appeared for the Scotland U-16 team in a Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland in October 2004. In December 2008, he joined Airdrie United on loan. He made his debut against St Johnstone on 20 December.", "id": "18351658" }, { "contents": "Joe Montemurro\n\n\nJoseph Adrian Montemurro (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian former soccer player, currently the manager of Arsenal Women. Montemurro played as a midfielder during his short professional career, mainly in Italy, before returning to Australia to play in the Victorian state leagues. He began coaching in youth football for various Victorian clubs, before his first managerial role with Sunshine George Cross, and then later, Coburg United. His first job abroad came in 2013, spending four months as the inaugural manager of Papa New Guinean side Port Moresby", "id": "14957118" }, { "contents": "Tommy Rooney\n\n\nTommy Rooney (born 30 December 1984) is an English footballer who played for League Two club Macclesfield Town during the 2004–05 season as a striker and later played non-league football for Vauxhall Motors. Tommy, who is the cousin of Wayne, John and Graeme Rooney, began his career at Tranmere Rovers, where he played in the youth and reserve sides but did not break into the first-team. He joined League Two club Macclesfield Town in May 2004 on a one-year contract and made two league and cup", "id": "9458597" }, { "contents": "Steven Weir\n\n\nSteven Weir (born 3 October 1988) is a Scottish Junior footballer who plays as a striker for West of Scotland Super League Premier Division club Arthurlie. Born in Harthill, Scotland, he started his career with Livingston, where he also spent a spell on loan at Cowdenbeath. He joined Arbroath before moving to Australia where he played for North Eastern Soccer League side, Shepparton South. He scored 28 goals in 12 games in his first season with the club, and played his first match for the team four hours after arriving", "id": "18510479" }, { "contents": "Jimmy McDonnell\n\n\nJames McDonnell (1927 – 30 September 2017) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team spanned three decades from 1948 until 1960. Born in Darver, County Louth, McDonnell first played competitive Gaelic football with the Darver Volunteers club. He won a junior league medal in 1952 before winning a county junior championship medal in 1956. From 1961 onward McDonnell played with the newly-formed St. Joseph's club. McDonnell made his debut with the Louth senior team during", "id": "4115167" }, { "contents": "Sean Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nSean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the", "id": "16687041" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)\n\n\nJames E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee, and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock. Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928. In a five-and-a-half-year career with", "id": "9343677" }, { "contents": "Dylan Murnane\n\n\nDylan Murnane (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a left back for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. In 2012, Murnane was a member of the Port Melbourne SC side that won promotion to the Victorian Premier League and reached the final of the State Knockout Cup, before he was recruited by the Melbourne Victory Youth team. After initially joining the club as member of the youth team in late 2012, Murnane made his professional debut with home town giants Melbourne Victory against Sydney", "id": "12515687" }, { "contents": "Jim Tansey\n\n\nJim Tansey (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian former association football player. The son of Everton footballer Jimmy Tansey, Tansey was born in Liverpool, England in 1953. He emigrated to Australia in 1974. Tansey began his senior playing career for South Liverpool F.C.. After moving to Australia, he played for Slavia Melbourne in the Victorian State League. With the start of the National Soccer League (NSL), Tansey moved to Fitzroy United Alexander. He later played for NSL club Footscray JUST. Between 1975 and 1981", "id": "10339389" }, { "contents": "Ray McKinnon (footballer)\n\n\nRaymond McKinnon (born 5 August 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the manager of Falkirk. As a player, McKinnon was a midfielder whose clubs included Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Aberdeen, Livingston, Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also represented the Scotland under-21 team. McKinnon began his managerial career in junior football with Lochee United before managing senior clubs Brechin City, Raith Rovers, Dundee United, Morton and left just three months later for Falkirk. McKinnon was born in Dundee on 5 August", "id": "4406705" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Douglas (Canadian soccer)\n\n\nJimmy Douglas (born October 6, 1948 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish-Canadian soccer midfielder and head coach. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League and earned fourteen caps for the Canadian national soccer team. Born in Scotland, Douglas moved to Canada in 1964 when he was sixteen. He almost immediately began playing for St. Catharines Heidelberg in the National Soccer League and by 1970 was in the first team. In 1974, he played in the North American Soccer League with the Toronto Metros before returning", "id": "12329068" }, { "contents": "Gary Hasler\n\n\nGary Hasler (born 5 May 1970) is an Australian former association football player. he played in the National Soccer League for Sunshine George Cross and South Melbourne. In international football, he made two appearances for Australia and also represented the country at the 1992 Olympics. Hasler joined Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League in 1989. In 1992, he joined South Melbourne. After two seasons he moved to Heidelberg in the Victorian Premier League. Hasler was a member of the Australian squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In", "id": "18353802" }, { "contents": "Sebastian Ryall\n\n\nSebastian \"Seb\" Ryall (born 18 July 1989) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender, most recently for Sydney FC. Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Football Club in Sydney. Ryall later played for the AIS in the Victorian Premier League before signing for Melbourne Victory on a 2-year contract in August 2007. He made his first appearance for the club in their round 3 match against Adelaide United and played in their Grand Final win over Adelaide in March 2009. In April 2009", "id": "1237851" }, { "contents": "Cameron Watson (footballer)\n\n\nCameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side Moreland Zebras FC. Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move", "id": "15681415" }, { "contents": "Jack Ross (footballer, born 1976)\n\n\nJohn James Ross (born 5 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the manager of English League One club Sunderland. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He", "id": "9812399" }, { "contents": "Jesse Daley\n\n\nJesse Daley (born 16 October 1997) is an Australian soccer player who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship. Daley spent time at Queensland Academy of Sport, before playing with the youth team at Brisbane Roar, before spending time with Melbourne Victory following his release from the club, before again playing with Brisbane Roar. Daley joined National Premier Leagues Victoria side South Melbourne FC ahead of their 2017 season. He left the club in January 2018, joining National Premier League side Lions FC. Following a trial, Daley", "id": "13637473" }, { "contents": "Steven Pace\n\n\nSteven Pace (born 6 March 1983) is an Australian footballer who plays for Heidelberg United FC. Earlier in his career, Pace played for various Victorian teams, including South Melbourne, Essendon Royals and the Preston Lions. He has been described as a \"utility\" player, having played as a midfielder as well as a central defender. He played in the latter position for the Preston Lions in their successful 2007 campaign, when they won the Victorian Premier League Championship. When the Melbourne Victory signed Pace in October 2007,", "id": "2478195" }, { "contents": "Evans Rusike\n\n\nEvans Rusike (born 13 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for Premier Soccer League side Supersport United in South Africa. He also plays for the Zimbabwe national team. Rusike began his career in Zimbabwe with Kiglon in 2010, before moving to Zimbabwe Saints in 2012. Three years later, in 2015, he left his homeland for the first time as he agreed to join South African Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United. His league debut came on 22 August against Ajax Cape Town. At the end", "id": "8298403" }, { "contents": "Tarek Elrich\n\n\nTarek Elrich (born 1 January 1987) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a right back and midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League. Elrich was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his senior career with Sydney Olympic, before moving to Newcastle Jets in 2006. In 2012, he moved to new club Western Sydney Wanderers before moving again to Adelaide United one season later. Tarek played youth football for Australia, before being called up to the Lebanon national team in 2012.", "id": "21014072" }, { "contents": "Dominic Smith (footballer)\n\n\nDominic Rooney Smith (born 22 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Northern Premier League North Division side Droylsden. He began his career with Crewe Alexandra, where he progressed through the club's Academy, but failed to make a first team appearance. He joined Colchester United in 2014, where he made his Football League debut in September 2014. He had a brief loan spell at A.F.C. Hornchurch, before leaving Colchester after the expiry of his one-year deal. He has since represented numerous Northern", "id": "18972781" }, { "contents": "Dave Harding\n\n\nDavid Harding (born 14 August 1946) is a former football (soccer) midfielder. He played for Wrexham from 1965 to 1966, then South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, before moving to Australia where he played for Pan Hellenic, Western Suburbs, Blacktown City and APIA until 1981. In this time he won NSW representative honours in 1974 against Bristol Rovers. Harding was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany and represented Australia 45 times between 1974 and 1977 scoring 11 times. More recently he", "id": "3031486" }, { "contents": "George Howard (footballer)\n\n\nGeorge Howard (born 8 October 1996) is an English-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker. George Howard moved to Australia with his family aged 1 or 15 from England where he had participated in the Sheffield United Academy, and was playing senior football for then fourth tier Victorian State League Division 1 side Eastern Lions by age 16. Howard joined National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 club Box Hill United in 2014, and was recruited to the Melbourne Victory Youth squad by Darren Davies in 2015. He trialled with the", "id": "12301976" }, { "contents": "George Slifkas\n\n\nGeorge Slifkas (born 18 October 1969) is an Australian former association football player. Slifkas played for Preston Makedonia, Heidelberg United and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s he dropped down to the Victorian Premier League where he played for the Bulleen Lions, the Thomastown Zebras and the Melbourne Raiders. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Slifkas played four matches as Australia placed fourth. In 1993 Slifkas made his first and only international appearance for Australia as a substitute in a match against", "id": "18566415" }, { "contents": "Luciano Trani\n\n\nLuciano Trani (born 10 August 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former football (soccer) player who was most recently the manager of National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side North Geelong Warriors FC. Trani began coaching at the Victorian Premier League and National Soccer League levels with the Fawkner Blues, Essendon Royals, Whittlesea Stallions, Brisbane Strikers and the Melbourne Knights. He then took up roles as a coaching instructor for Football Federation Victoria and Head Coach of Pascoe Vale FC, before joining Wellington Phoenix. He then transferred to", "id": "3270514" }, { "contents": "Touk Miller\n\n\n. Such was his talent, he was selected to represent the under 15 Victorian state cricket team at the national championships in March 2011 and made his first XI debut for the North Melbourne Cricket Club at the Junction Oval in December 2011 before electing to focus on football the following year. Miller played all of his junior years with the Maribyrnong Park Lions in the Essendon District Football League and made his senior debut for the club in 2011 at the age of 15. He played junior football for both St Kevin's College in the", "id": "17982973" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Bullard\n\n\nJames Richard Bullard (born 23 October 1978) is an English former footballer, coach and television presenter. He is currently co-host of the Saturday morning Sky TV show Soccer AM. As a player he was a midfielder and played youth football at West Ham United before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet in 1998. Two seasons at Peterborough United was followed by a spell at Wigan Athletic where he scored ten goals in 145 league appearances, helping them to their first promotion to the Premier League. Bullard was known for being a", "id": "8289895" }, { "contents": "Kieran Dover\n\n\nKieran Dover is an Australian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Green Gully in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. From Stockton-on-Tees, Dover started his career at the youth team of Sunderland before moving to Australia at the age of twelve, where he joined the youth ranks at Berwick City. He then eventually went on to join Dandenong Thunder of the NPL Victoria where he was named Winning Edge Presentations Rising Star of the Month in August. He also played for the Melbourne Victory youth sides in", "id": "8333803" }, { "contents": "Andrew Robertson\n\n\nAndrew Robertson (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. Robertson began his senior career with Queen's Park in 2012 before joining Dundee United a year later. His form in his first season as a professional led to him being named SPFA Young Player of the Year and also making his international debut. He joined Hull City in July 2014 for a fee of £2.85 million, before joining Liverpool in July 2017 for an", "id": "17961904" }, { "contents": "Steve Hayward\n\n\nSteve Hayward (born 8 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder in a sixteen-year career spanning from 1988 to 2004. Born in Pelsall near Walsall, Hayward began his career with Derby County and made his League debut in 1990, but found first-team opportunities limited. He joined Carlisle United in 1994 and won two promotions from Division Three and the 1997 Football League Trophy Final during his time at the club before moving to Fulham in 1997. He played a role in Fulham", "id": "6088205" }, { "contents": "Vince Lia\n\n\nVince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Adelaide United in the A-League. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior debut with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League. He spent one season with Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues in 2005 before joining Melbourne Victory in 2005 to play in the newly-formed A-League. Lia next spent a decade at Wellington Phoenix, making over 200 appearances for the club in all competitions. He", "id": "5478442" }, { "contents": "Peter Stone (footballer)\n\n\nPeter Stone (born 30 September 1954) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Stone played his junior football for Adamstown before playing for Western Suburbs in the New South Wales state league (1973–1976) and the National Soccer League (1977). In 1978, he moved to APIA Leichhardt, where he played three NSL seasons. Stone moved to St. George in 1980 where he played two seasons. Stone made his international debut for Australia in 1976 against Hong Kong. He also played over in England for Tottenham Hotspur", "id": "5877228" }, { "contents": "Sean Cranney\n\n\nSean Cranney (born 2 October 1973) is an Australian former association football player. Cranney played for Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club before joining Brisbane United in the Queensland state league in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was signed to National Soccer League team Brisbane Strikers. At the Strikers he played five seasons before moving to Northern Spirit for the 1990/2000 season. Cranney played for Australia at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Cranney made his full international debut in November 1996 for Australia in an OFC Nations Cup match against New", "id": "18125994" }, { "contents": "Derek Spalding\n\n\nDerek Spalding (born 20 December 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former soccer player, who played as a defender. Spalding played for Hibernian in the Scottish Football League until he emigrated to the United States in 1977. He then played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least two in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the US national team, in 1982. Growing up in Scotland, Spalding signed with First Division club Hibernian as a youth player. He worked his way", "id": "11180604" }, { "contents": "Ross Barkley\n\n\n23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 but did not appear in any of England's matches. Managers and teammates have compared his style of play to those of Michael Ballack, Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Barkley was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. He joined Everton as an 11-year-old and played for the club's youth teams. He was named as a substitute in a first team league match in early 2010–11, and was expected to make his Premier League debut before his leg was broken in one place after a collision with", "id": "7578236" }, { "contents": "Erick Chipeta\n\n\nErick Chipeta (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Zimbabwe national team. Chipeta started his career in Zimbabwe with Hwange Colliery, where he remained for two years before leaving his homeland for South Africa for the first time. 2014 saw Chipeta join newly promoted Premier Soccer League side Chippa United. He made his debut for Chippa in a 1–1 draw at home to Mamelodi Sundowns on 22 October. In total he made 18 appearances and scored 1 goal in his first season", "id": "6134269" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\nShaun Antony Rooney (born 26 July 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Rooney has previously played for Queen's Park, Dunfermline Athletic, York City and Queen of the South. Rooney was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. Rooney started his career playing youth football with Bellshill Boys Club and Dundee United, before signing with Scottish League Two club Queen's Park in July 2013. Rooney's first-team debut came shortly after signing for the club, in", "id": "16210765" }, { "contents": "Robert Trajkovski\n\n\nRobert Trajkovski (born 24 July 1972) is an Australian former footballer. Trajkovski began his senior career with Altona before moving to National Soccer League team Melbourne City. After a season with Melbourne City Trajkovski transferred to Sydney United. He played two season for United between 1995 and 1997. In the 1997/98 season Trajkovski played for Carlton, playing 22 matches. Trajkovski moved to Perth Glory for the 1998/99 season. After playing 73 matches over three seasons for the Glory he moved to Northern Spirit where he saw out his top flight career", "id": "5112927" }, { "contents": "Sasa Macura\n\n\nSasa Macura is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Manly United in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Macura played youth football for Northern Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Bonnyrigg White Eagles before moving to Hungary. There, he made his professional debut for MTK Budapest as well as playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II for MTK's reserve team and Szigetszentmiklósi. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for Blacktown City. He moved to Manly United in 2017. Macura was born in", "id": "14725944" }, { "contents": "Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)\n\n\nPhilip Anthony Jones (born 21 February 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Manchester United and the English national team. Before joining Manchester United, Jones played for Blackburn Rovers at both youth and senior levels. Although primarily a centre-back, he has also been used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Jones has represented England at various levels and is currently a member of the England senior squad. He played for the under-19 team in 2009 before making his debut for the under-21 team in 2010", "id": "13966664" }, { "contents": "Paul Bilokapic\n\n\nPaul Bilokapic (born 8 August 1976) is an Australian former soccer player. He played as a midfielder. After playing youth football for Yaralla, he moved to Sydney Croatia (later Sydney United) where he played until the end of the 1997–98 National Soccer League season. After two seasons with Northern Spirit FC, he returned to Sydney United, where he played until the end of the 2002–03 National Soccer League season. Bilokapic made his full international debut for Australia in February 1998 in a friendly match against Chile. He made", "id": "10116884" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875)\n\n\nJames Jackson (15 September 1875 – after 1914) was a footballer who played as a full back or at wing half. Jackson's family emigrated from Scotland to Australia where he was raised and where he began his senior football career while still in his early teens. He returned to Scotland in 1893, appearing in Junior football and briefly for Rangers before moving to England to join Newcastle United. Two years later he signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he spent six seasons, captaining the club in its inaugural season in the Football League", "id": "19786821" }, { "contents": "David Carney\n\n\nDavid Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC. Born in Sydney, he began his playing career with the New South Wales Institute of Sport before moving to England to join Everton. Having failed to break into the Everton first team he then moved to Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical in Scotland before returning to his native Australia. After a successful spell with Sydney FC, Carney then returned to England, signing with Sheffield United before", "id": "3576647" }, { "contents": "John Pritchard (footballer)\n\n\nJohn Vincent Pritchard (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Ashton United. Pritchard was in his youth a trainee by Manchester United, before joined in April 2012 to Oldham Athletic. He made his debut for Oldham Athletic on 21 December 2013 in a 2–0 defeat to Colchester United at Boundary Park, he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Adam Rooney. After two seasons was released and joined in August 2014 to FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League", "id": "278653" }, { "contents": "APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC\n\n\nhistory of the club when skipper Jimmy Rooney and centreforward Peter Ollerton, who scored five goals, won 9–1 against Auburn in front of a crowd of 5210 at Wentworth Park, the highest finals result ever. Rooney and Ollerton were also in the team that represented Australia a few months later in its first World Cup participation in Germany. In 1979 APIA was given access to the National Soccer League, the top tier of Australian soccer since 1977. In 1987 APIA won the national championship, six points ahead of the Preston Makedonia Soccer", "id": "17492652" }, { "contents": "Ante Moric\n\n\nAnte Tomislav Moric (born 19 April 1974) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Leagues Victoria side Dandenong City SC. Moric played at club level in Australia and Croatia for St. George, AIS, Sydney United, Zadar, Canberra Cosmos, Sydney Olympic, Fraser Park, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Rockdale City Suns. He also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After a stint with the youth side of National Premier Leagues NSW 2 side St George", "id": "5169013" }, { "contents": "John May (Australian footballer)\n\n\nJohn May (born 15 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). May was recruited to play for Essendon's under-19s from West Coburg in the Essendon District Football League. In 1970, his second season with the under-19s, he was named captain and also played several matches in the reserves before making his senior VFL debut late in the season. He kicked one goal from his three games playing as a midfielder and stayed with Essendon for another year, but", "id": "16685305" }, { "contents": "Andrew Fox (footballer)\n\n\nAndrew Thomas Philip Fox (born 15 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fox began his playing career during his time at university, playing football in the USA for 4 years with St. Edward's University Soccer Team. After a short spell at Texan club Midland/Odessa Sockers, Fox moved back to England in July 2015, where he joined League One side Peterborough United on a free transfer. He joined National League side Kidderminster Harriers on loan", "id": "3891979" }, { "contents": "Petar Franjic\n\n\nPetar Franjic (born 7 April 1992) is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Avondale FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Franjic joined the Melbourne Knights FC under 21 squad in 2009 after spending a number of years with the Victorian Institute of Sport. That year, he made his breakthrough into senior football, making six appearances for the first team in the Victorian Premier League in the first half of the season. He was then picked up by A-League side Melbourne Victory FC, initially with the youth team.", "id": "1076969" }, { "contents": "Jacob Burns (soccer)\n\n\nJacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory. Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay. His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October", "id": "5439205" }, { "contents": "Zander Diamond\n\n\nAlexander Kevin \"Zander\" Diamond (born 12 March 1985) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He began his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen, before moving to Oldham Athletic in 2011; he later played for Burton Albion, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town in England. He won eleven caps for Scotland under-21s. Raised in the west of Scotland in Dumbarton, Alexandria-born Diamond graduated from the youth team at Aberdeen in his first full season and made his League debut against Dundee", "id": "20263817" }, { "contents": "Hilton Kotzur\n\n\nHilton Kotzur (born 20 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kotzur represented New South Wales as a junior, but was also a member of the Victorian team which won the 1981 Teal Cup, earning All-Australian honours He joined the Swans when they were still based in Melbourne and played both Under-19s and reserves football for the club, before he fractured two vertebrae in 1982. The back injury stalled his career and it was not until", "id": "20658877" }, { "contents": "Christopher Forrester\n\n\nChristopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland Premier Division. He has also previously played for Bohemians, Peterborough United, Aberdeen and the Republic of Ireland under-21's. In March 2016 he was called up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad but has yet to be capped. Forrester started his schoolboy career with his local team, Smithfield, where he stayed for three seasons. He played for Bohemians for three seasons before", "id": "3737210" }, { "contents": "James Meyer (footballer)\n\n\nJames Meyer (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Queensland club Brisbane City. Born in Sydney, Meyer started his youth career with Brisbane City FC in 2005. The following year Meyer went to Europe and signed on as a youth player for Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and then Hertha BSC of Germany the next year. He then returned to Australia in 2008 to play for Olympic FC of the Queensland State League before joining Eastern Suburbs F.C. of the Brisbane Premier League", "id": "21300581" }, { "contents": "Billy Ions\n\n\nRooney and Spanish forward Fernando Torres to whom he compared himself to. Ions first started playing football in the youth team of the local village of Valle de San Lorenzo in Tenerife, named \"Constanza\". Years later he started to play in the football school of Juan Miguel. At the age of 15, Ions joined the youth setup at CD Tenerife. In February 2010, he returned to England to join Newcastle United, the club he supported as a child. He made his Under-18's debut in a home match against", "id": "2185330" }, { "contents": "Jason Geria\n\n\nJason Kato Geria (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for JEF United Chiba in the J2 League and for the Australia national team. Born in Canberra, Geria played youth football with the Australian Institute of Sport and Brisbane Roar youth before joining Melbourne Victory in 2012, where he made his professional debut and played for five years. Geria was born in Canberra to Ugandan parents. Geria's first youth club was Weston Creek SC in Canberra. He also played in", "id": "13593993" }, { "contents": "Vincent Bezecourt\n\n\nVincent Bezecourt (born 10 June 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Bezecourt began his football career in France with Jeunesse Villenavaise and made his debut with the first team during the 2012 season in Championnat de France amateur. In two season with the first team, he appeared in 52 league matches scoring 9 goals. In 2014, he went to the United States to play College soccer for St. Francis Brooklyn under head coach Tom Giovatto. In his first", "id": "7942392" }, { "contents": "Oliver Puflett\n\n\nOliver Puflett (born 26 July 1999) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a striker for S.League club Home United. Puflett started his career with the Western Sydney Wanderers FC, playing for its Under-21 team, scoring 5 goals in 11 games over 2 years. He also won the Y-League title in the 2017-18 season with them. He played for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC Under-21 squad before signing his first professional contract and joining Singapore Premier League side Home United FC in March 2019. He then made", "id": "9045653" }, { "contents": "Massimo Luongo\n\n\nMassimo Corey Luongo ( ; born 25 September 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Queens Park Rangers and the Australian national team. Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Queens Park Rangers in 2015. Luongo has played for the Australia", "id": "15251787" }, { "contents": "Graham Moss\n\n\nGraham Moss (born 14 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who was highly successful in both the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a Brownlow Medal-winning ruckman and played 343 senior games in the WAFL and VFL. Moss debuted for Claremont Football Club in the WAFL in 1969. In 1970, he made his debut for the Western Australian state team. Essendon attempted to lure him to Melbourne several times, and finally succeeded before the", "id": "15698753" }, { "contents": "Luke Power\n\n\nLuke Power (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). A member of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premiership winning teams, he played 282 games for the Lions before moving to Greater Western Sydney where he played his final season. He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Giants. Power debuted for the Lions as an 18-year-old in 1998, and he has", "id": "12553548" }, { "contents": "Robert Ironside (footballer)\n\n\nRobert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His club career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Sydney Olympic in the Australian National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to Newcastle Breakers He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle Ironside made his All White debut in a 1-1", "id": "19673589" }, { "contents": "James Jeggo\n\n\nJames Alexander Jeggo ( ; born 12 February 1992) is an Austrian-born Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a central midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and the Australian national team. Born in Vienna, Austria, Jeggo moved to Australia as a child, where he started his footballing career in youth football with Green Gully and at the Victorian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Melbourne Victory. Jeggo was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Australia as a child, growing", "id": "5614644" }, { "contents": "Jason Trifiro\n\n\nJason Trifiro (born 3 June 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Nunawading City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. Trifiro started his career in the semi-professional lower leagues in Australia, playing in New South Wales for National Premier Leagues NSW clubs Marconi Stallions, APIA Leichhardt and the South Coast Wolves. In 2011, he moved to Victoria where he played the 2011 Victorian Premier League with Northcote alongside his brother, before they both moved to ex-NSL heavyweight South Melbourne in the National", "id": "7283672" }, { "contents": "Stephen Glass (footballer)\n\n\nStephen Glass (born 23 May 1976) is a former Scottish professional footballer who is the current head coach of Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship. A midfielder, Glass started his career at Aberdeen, with whom he won the 1995 Scottish League Cup. In 1998, he moved to England, transferring to Newcastle United of the Premier League. Shortly after joining Newcastle, Glass made an appearance for the Scotland national football team. He joined Watford in the First Division in 2001, before returning to Scotland in 2003 with Hibernian", "id": "19685891" }, { "contents": "Stephen O'Donnell (footballer, born 1983)\n\n\nStephen James O'Donnell (born 10 July 1983) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career with Dundee United, making his debut in 2002. He spent time on loan with Ross County before leaving Dundee United in 2005 to play briefly in England with Boston United. Returning to Scottish football, O'Donnell had spells with Clyde and St Mirren before joining Dundee in 2010, where he later became club captain. He rejoined Clyde in 2014 and left the club in 2015. He was a Scotland under-20 international", "id": "10873501" }, { "contents": "Brian Robinson (soccer)\n\n\nBrian Robinson (born 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He started playing at the age of ten with the Evening Optimist Club in his home town and later starred in the Victoria High School team that reached the B.C. High School final in 1966. At 17 he was playing for Vic West in the Victoria City League where he played for two years before joining Victoria United in the Pacific Coast League. By 1970 he was playing in the Western Canada Soccer League", "id": "11330905" }, { "contents": "Daniel McBreen\n\n\nDaniel James McBreen (born 23 April 1977) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW club Edgeworth, and is a coach with Newcastle Jets U15. Born in England, McBreen moved to Australia with his family when he was six weeks old and started his career in local football with Toronto Awaba Stags and Edgeworth Eagles. He earned a professional contract with National Soccer League club Newcastle United in 2000, where he played for two seasons before joining Universitatea Craiova of the Romanian Divizia A.", "id": "9649312" }, { "contents": "Tomislav Uskok\n\n\nTomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney United in the National Premier Leagues. Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club Melbourne Knights. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined Victorian State League Division 1 side St Albans Saints for the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014", "id": "8367993" }, { "contents": "Austin Berry (soccer)\n\n\nthe newly-formed club FC Cincinnati in the lower division United Soccer League. He served as FC Cincinnati's team captain for two seasons before retiring from his playing career and accepting a position as the club's strength and conditioning coach. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended the Summit Country Day School for high school where he played four fall seasons of soccer. With a 14–1–1 record during his senior year, Berry contributed 10 goals, 6 assists, and led his team to the Regional finals. He earned first team", "id": "19581628" }, { "contents": "Gary Smith (footballer, born 1968)\n\n\nGary Neil Smith (born 3 December 1968) is an English former footballer. He is currently Head Coach & Technical Director of Nashville SC in the United Soccer League, the second tier in the US soccer pyramid. Smith's playing career began at Fulham, progressing through the youth team before making one first-team appearance for the club. After a brief spell with Colchester United, Smith joined non-league side Enfield in 1989. His most successful spell during his playing days was at Wycombe Wanderers, spending two seasons with", "id": "686418" }, { "contents": "Lee Scroggins\n\n\nLeepaul Scroggins (born 23 October 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for South Shields. Scroggins began his career with Darlington, but moved on to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Blyth Spartans in 2001 without having played for Darlington's first team. He spent just over a year with Spartans, before joining Whitley Bay of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. Scroggins then moved to the United States, where he had a successful college soccer career at Lynn University, graduating in Sports Recreation", "id": "8969031" }, { "contents": "Brad Smith (footballer, born 1948)\n\n\nBrad R. Smith (born 3 December 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also had a long career in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) where he played for East Perth and coached East Fremantle. Smith was a late comer to VFL football as he had spent eight years at East Perth before joining North Melbourne. He was a member of East Perth's 1972 and 1978 premiership teams and a back pocket player in", "id": "8985200" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Dunne (footballer, born 1997)\n\n\nJames Gerard Dunne (born 19 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Burnley. Dunne played locally in Ireland before joining the youth set-up at Manchester United in 2007. After transferring to Burnley in 2016, he spent time on loan at Barrow (where he made his senior debut in August 2017) and Accrington Stanley (where he made his Football League debut in January 2018). Born in Dundalk Dunne began his career with St Kevin's Boys Club before joining the Manchester", "id": "18334762" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\na Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Ayr United at Hampden Park. During the 2013–14 season, Rooney made 11 appearances for Queen's Park. His breakthrough season came in 2014–15, when he played in 30 matches, scoring his first goal on 15 November 2014 with a header against Elgin City in a 4–1 win. Rooney's impressive performances for Queen's Park saw him awarded the club's Young Player of the Year and also being named in the PFA Scotland Scottish League Two Team of the Year. The start of 2015–16 saw Rooney", "id": "16210766" }, { "contents": "Jonas Salley\n\n\nGyawe Jonas Salley (born 16 March 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a former Ivorian-Australian footballer, who last played for Hohhot Zhongyou in China League One. He is currently an assistant coach for Qingdao Red Lions. Salley moved to Australia to escape from the civil and government problems of his home country in 2006. He first played at Mill Park Soccer Club, where his outstanding performances were noticed within a very short time. He was eventually signed up to play with Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne. He was then", "id": "20136861" }, { "contents": "Alan Green (soccer)\n\n\nAlan Green (born 1 January 1954) is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Green, a native of Worcester, England, began his professional career with Coventry City. He joined the club as a striker in 1970, but did not make his first team debut until April 22, 1972, which was", "id": "15514446" }, { "contents": "Tommy Kelly (footballer)\n\n\nTommy Kelly was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A dynamic midfielder, he is quite simply a Bohemian F.C. legend, his career at Dalymount Park spanning 3 different decades. He appeared in a club record 19 games in European competition and won 2 League of Ireland titles. He joined Bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the \"B\" team. He made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over Drogheda on April 10, 1966.", "id": "14451234" }, { "contents": "Kevin Egan\n\n\nKevin Egan (born 10 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and played in Essendon's 1965 premiership team. Egan was used mostly as a rover and wingman. After leaving Essendon Egan spent some time at both South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide and the Victorian", "id": "1551420" }, { "contents": "Kenny Hill (association footballer)\n\n\nKenneth George Hill (born 7 March 1953) is an English former association football defender who played professionally in England and the North American Soccer League. In 1971, he joined Gillingham, playing 125 league matches before leaving the team for the United States in 1974. That year, he signed with the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He also played for Maidstone United, where he began his career, Lincoln City, with whom he made a single appearance in", "id": "347314" }, { "contents": "Ray Farningham\n\n\nRay Farningham (born 10 April 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder for a handful of Scottish clubs. He previously managed Forfar Athletic, Montrose and was the assistant manager of Dundee. Ray is now assistant manager at junior side Lochee United F.C. Farningham trained as a youth with Dundee United before beginning his senior career with Forfar Athletic, making his debut towards the end of the 1970s. In his seven years at Station Park, Farningham was part of the sides which won the 1983–84 Scottish Second", "id": "3703221" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Kirk\n\n\nJames Kirk (born 12 November 1925) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Bury, Colchester United, Torquay United and Aldershot. Born in Tarbolton, Kirk began his career in Scotland with St Mirren, where he made 86 league appearances for the club, before moving to England to play for Bury, where he featured in 79 Football League matches. Kirk joined Colchester United in 1954 and spent one season with the club, making his", "id": "21920041" }, { "contents": "Gary Crouch\n\n\nGary Crouch (born 27 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After leaving Essendon, Crouch played for Rochester for one season before moving to Western Australia and joining Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He spent four seasons with Subiaco, playing on half back flank in the 1973 WAFL winning Grand Final team. He then moved back to Victoria to the Bendigo Football League (BFL). Crouch played one season with South Bendigo and", "id": "16878056" }, { "contents": "Neil Jenkins (footballer)\n\n\nNeil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Leatherhead F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team. Born in Carshalton, London, Jenkins joined the Essex based team Southend United in July 2002, on a one", "id": "9293884" }, { "contents": "John Reilly (footballer, born 1962)\n\n\nJohn Reilly (born 21 March 1962 in Dundee) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Reilly began his career with Dundee United, signing as a schoolboy from Strathtay Boys Club in 1979. He played for the Scotland Under 17 and Under 18 professional youth sides before making his first team debut in August 1980. He was a member of the squad that won a Premier League Winners medal in season 1982–1983 before going onto score the club's first ever goal in the European Cup the following season. Signing", "id": "10817319" } ]

[ { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nJames Rooney (born 10 December 1945 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former association football player. He was a member of the Australian 1974 FIFA World Cup squad in West Germany. Rooney was a left winger who played first team football with Lochee United, Peterborough United and Montrose F.C. in the United Kingdom, before emigrating to Melbourne, Australia in the late 1960s. He was an instant success there with Ukrainian Essendon Lions before transferring to Sydney to join the Prague club in 1970, and later playing at APIA Leichhardt, in", "id": "318576" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\n1974 FIFA World Cup campaign, earning himself many admirers for his hard tackling and ball distribution. The Jimmy Rooney Medal, awarded from 1992 onwards to the man of the match in the Victorian Premier League Grand Final, was named in his honour. He has recently settled to a managerial role of Victorian senior team, Eastern Lions, and also hosts a junior training program. He is also currently the head coach of the first eleven soccer team at St Kevin's College, Melbourne, Australia. In his second season in charge", "id": "318578" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Rooney\n\n\nthe New South Wales First Division. In 1977, with APIA not joining the newly formed National Soccer League, Rooney joined Marconi Fairfield for two seasons, before moving back to Victoria where he played with Fitzroy Alexander and Croydon City Arrows. He made his Australian debut against a England XI in 1971, going on play 57 times for his country (although he also accrued caps in \"B\" team fixtures, bringing the total to 102) in a career spanning a decade. He was Australia's first choice midfielder in the", "id": "318577" }, { "contents": "Ronald Chitiyo\n\n\nRonald Chitiyo (born 10 June 1992), commonly known as Rooney, is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Zimbabwe Premier Soccer League side CAPS United and the Zimbabwe national team. Chitiyo, son of former footballer Frank Chitiyo, began his senior career with Douglas Warriors. Two years later, he would leave to join Monomotapa United, during his time with Monomotapa he finished as second runner-up in the 2012 Soccer Star of the Year award. In 2013, Chitiyo had trials at South African Premier Soccer League", "id": "230018" }, { "contents": "Jim Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nJim Rooney (born September 9, 1968) is an American former professional soccer player who played as both a midfielder and a striker. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Soccer League team Boca Raton FC. Jim Rooney was born in The Bronx, New York City. Rooney played college soccer at Fordham University and C.W. Post. At C.W. Post, he played with the Pioneers. He currently holds the school's record for most goals in a single season: 21. Rooney began his professional career in 1994 with", "id": "327338" }, { "contents": "Wayne Rooney\n\n\nWayne Mark Rooney (born 24 October 1985) is an English professional footballer who plays for Major League Soccer club D.C. United. He has played much of his career as a forward, and he has also been used in various midfield roles. He is the record goalscorer for the England national team and for Manchester United. At club level, he has won every honour available in English, European and Continental football, with the exception of the UEFA Super Cup. Rooney and Michael Carrick are the only English players to win the", "id": "20357111" }, { "contents": "Mark Rooney\n\n\nMark Rooney (born 13 December 1983) is an Irish former footballer who played as a striker. He is the elder brother of Adam Rooney. Rooney began his senior career at Dublin City before joining UCD in 2003 where he broke into the Student's first team. Rooney only stayed at Belfield Park for one season before joining his former manager at UCD, Paul Doolin at Drogheda United in 2004. Despite a difficult season for him personally, only scoring one league goal in 22 appearances, Rooney was part of the Drogheda United", "id": "21841504" }, { "contents": "Bobby Rooney\n\n\nRobert Rooney (8 July 1938 – 9 August 2016) was a Scottish footballer, who made 47 appearances in the Football League playing for Sheffield United, Doncaster Rovers and Lincoln City. He played as a winger. Rooney was born in Cowie, Stirling, and began his football career with Clydebank Juniors in his native Scotland before joining English Second Division club Sheffield United in 1958. He played occasionally in his first two seasons with the club, but not thereafter. In the 1962–63 season, he was registered with three clubs:", "id": "776620" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Gabriel\n\n\nJames Gabriel (born 10 October 1940) is a Scottish former football midfielder, who earned two caps with the Scotland national football team. Chiefly associated with English club Everton, Gabriel played extensively in Scotland and England before ending his career with the Seattle Sounders of the North American Soccer League. He then became a coach in both England and the USA, where he lives today. Jimmy Gabriel first came to the attention of Dundee when he played at right-half for the Scotland under-15 schoolboys in an international at Dens Park.", "id": "5028700" }, { "contents": "Con Boutsianis\n\n\nConstantinos \"Con\" Boutsianis (born 27 December 1971 in Melbourne) is an Australian football (soccer) player and former international, noted for his ability in dead ball situations. Boutsianis began his career with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League in 1989, and soon established himself as a goalscoring midfielder. He left South at the end of the 1994/95 season to join Heidelberg United for the 1996 Victorian Premier League season, before joining Collingwood Warriors for their one and only season in the NSL. Following the club's demise at", "id": "4070407" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\nSteven Laurie (born 30 October 1982 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia) is a former Australian football (soccer) player who played as a defender. He played in England with West Ham United's youth academy and Peterborough United, before returning to Australia to play for South Melbourne FC in the National Soccer League and Sydney FC in the A-League. He is currently the head manager of Geelong SC. Steve Laurie started his professional youth career with the Victorian Institute of Sport, spending a year at the academy in 1997", "id": "21322154" }, { "contents": "David Jones (footballer, born 1955)\n\n\nDavid Jones (born 1 April 1955 in Fremantle, Western Australia) is an Australian former soccer player and coach. Jones played his junior soccer for Kwinana United before graduating to the senior team in 1970. He remained with the club until the end of the 1975 season, where he won the Rothmans Gold Medal award for the season's fairest and best player. In 1976 Jones played for East Fremantle Tricolore. In the first year of the National Soccer League in 1977 he played for West Adelaide and was part of the club", "id": "12543554" }, { "contents": "Luke Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nLuke William Rooney (born 28 December 1990) is an English footballer who plays as a midfielder and is a free agent after leaving his most recent club, Welling United. Born in Bermondsey, London, Rooney joined Gillingham as an apprentice professional in 2007. He forced his way into the first team squad in early December 2008 and was an unused substitute in the FA Cup second round replay at Stockport County. In early 2009 he was loaned out to Lewes of the Conference National, where he made six appearances. He turned", "id": "6731049" }, { "contents": "Preston Lions FC\n\n\nthe Year Bill Fleming Medal – Media voted VPL Player of the Year Victorian Premier League Coach of the Year Victorian Premier League Top Goalscorer Victorian Premier League Goalkeeper of the Year Victorian Premier League Under 21 Player of the Year Jimmy Rooney Medal – VPL Grand Final Man of the Match Weinstein Medal Junior Player of the Year Australian Representatives – Senior Level National Representatives – Youth Team Victorian State Representatives – Senior Level ● Preston Makedonia Inaugural season *Victorian Provisional League* 1959 - 4th - 10 Teams in League. ● Victorian Metropolitan League Division 2", "id": "19353574" }, { "contents": "Bob Rooney (soccer)\n\n\nRobert “Bob” Rooney was a U.S. soccer center forward who spent his playing career in the St. Louis leagues. He also earned two caps with the U.S. national team in 1957. Rooney grew up in the Dogtown area of St. Louis, attending St. James Grade School and St. Louis University High School. As a youth, he played both football and baseball in addition to soccer spending five seasons with a St. Louis Cardinals farm team. Even while playing in the local St. Louis soccer leagues, Rooney earned a living as a", "id": "2939914" }, { "contents": "Steve Laurie\n\n\n, before moving to England, joining the youth academy of West Ham United F.C. in 1998. Laurie remained with the Hammers academy until 2002, then moving to Peterborough United F.C.. He returned to Australia after being lured back by former Rangers F.C. player and then coach Stuart Munro to play for National Soccer League powerhouse South Melbourne FC in the last season of the NSL. Laurie was one of the first six signings for the newly formed Hyundai A-League club Sydney FC, although later he was released from his contract via mutual", "id": "21322155" }, { "contents": "William McLachlan (footballer)\n\n\nWilliam McLachlan (born 19 March 1989) is a Scottish footballer currently playing for Irvine Meadow in the Scottish Junior Football Association, West Region. He has previously played in the Scottish Football League First Division for Airdrie United and for Australian club Melbourne Knights in the Victorian Premier League. McLachlan began his career with Rangers and appeared for the Scotland U-16 team in a Victory Shield match against Northern Ireland in October 2004. In December 2008, he joined Airdrie United on loan. He made his debut against St Johnstone on 20 December.", "id": "18351658" }, { "contents": "Joe Montemurro\n\n\nJoseph Adrian Montemurro (born 13 September 1969) is an Australian former soccer player, currently the manager of Arsenal Women. Montemurro played as a midfielder during his short professional career, mainly in Italy, before returning to Australia to play in the Victorian state leagues. He began coaching in youth football for various Victorian clubs, before his first managerial role with Sunshine George Cross, and then later, Coburg United. His first job abroad came in 2013, spending four months as the inaugural manager of Papa New Guinean side Port Moresby", "id": "14957118" }, { "contents": "Tommy Rooney\n\n\nTommy Rooney (born 30 December 1984) is an English footballer who played for League Two club Macclesfield Town during the 2004–05 season as a striker and later played non-league football for Vauxhall Motors. Tommy, who is the cousin of Wayne, John and Graeme Rooney, began his career at Tranmere Rovers, where he played in the youth and reserve sides but did not break into the first-team. He joined League Two club Macclesfield Town in May 2004 on a one-year contract and made two league and cup", "id": "9458597" }, { "contents": "Steven Weir\n\n\nSteven Weir (born 3 October 1988) is a Scottish Junior footballer who plays as a striker for West of Scotland Super League Premier Division club Arthurlie. Born in Harthill, Scotland, he started his career with Livingston, where he also spent a spell on loan at Cowdenbeath. He joined Arbroath before moving to Australia where he played for North Eastern Soccer League side, Shepparton South. He scored 28 goals in 12 games in his first season with the club, and played his first match for the team four hours after arriving", "id": "18510479" }, { "contents": "Jimmy McDonnell\n\n\nJames McDonnell (1927 – 30 September 2017) was an Irish Gaelic football manager, selector and player. His league and championship career with the Louth senior team spanned three decades from 1948 until 1960. Born in Darver, County Louth, McDonnell first played competitive Gaelic football with the Darver Volunteers club. He won a junior league medal in 1952 before winning a county junior championship medal in 1956. From 1961 onward McDonnell played with the newly-formed St. Joseph's club. McDonnell made his debut with the Louth senior team during", "id": "4115167" }, { "contents": "Sean Rooney (footballer)\n\n\nSean Rooney (born 1 March 1989) is an Australian footballer who plays for Marconi Stallions FC. Rooney started his A-League career playing in the Youth League with Sydney FC. He was the league's top goal scorer before he was signed by Newcastle United Jets on a short term injury replacement for Jason Naidovski. He made his A-League debut in Round 15 of the 2008–09 season against Queensland Roar. His first goal for the club, undoubtedly the most important in his fledgling career and a significant one in the", "id": "16687041" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Robertson (footballer, born 1910)\n\n\nJames E. Robertson (1910 – after 1937) was a professional footballer who won two caps for the Scotland national football team. He made more than 150 appearances in the First Division of the Scottish Football League for Dundee, and also played in the English Football League for Birmingham and the Scottish First Division for Kilmarnock. Robertson was born in Dundee. A centre forward, he played for junior clubs Lochee United and Logie Thistle before joining Dundee in June 1928. In a five-and-a-half-year career with", "id": "9343677" }, { "contents": "Dylan Murnane\n\n\nDylan Murnane (born 18 January 1995) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a left back for IFK Mariehamn in the Finnish Veikkausliiga. In 2012, Murnane was a member of the Port Melbourne SC side that won promotion to the Victorian Premier League and reached the final of the State Knockout Cup, before he was recruited by the Melbourne Victory Youth team. After initially joining the club as member of the youth team in late 2012, Murnane made his professional debut with home town giants Melbourne Victory against Sydney", "id": "12515687" }, { "contents": "Jim Tansey\n\n\nJim Tansey (born 8 August 1953) is an Australian former association football player. The son of Everton footballer Jimmy Tansey, Tansey was born in Liverpool, England in 1953. He emigrated to Australia in 1974. Tansey began his senior playing career for South Liverpool F.C.. After moving to Australia, he played for Slavia Melbourne in the Victorian State League. With the start of the National Soccer League (NSL), Tansey moved to Fitzroy United Alexander. He later played for NSL club Footscray JUST. Between 1975 and 1981", "id": "10339389" }, { "contents": "Ray McKinnon (footballer)\n\n\nRaymond McKinnon (born 5 August 1970) is a Scottish football player and coach, who is currently the manager of Falkirk. As a player, McKinnon was a midfielder whose clubs included Dundee United, Nottingham Forest, Aberdeen, Livingston, Raith Rovers and Montrose. He also represented the Scotland under-21 team. McKinnon began his managerial career in junior football with Lochee United before managing senior clubs Brechin City, Raith Rovers, Dundee United, Morton and left just three months later for Falkirk. McKinnon was born in Dundee on 5 August", "id": "4406705" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Douglas (Canadian soccer)\n\n\nJimmy Douglas (born October 6, 1948 in Falkirk, Scotland) is a former Scottish-Canadian soccer midfielder and head coach. He played professionally in the North American Soccer League and earned fourteen caps for the Canadian national soccer team. Born in Scotland, Douglas moved to Canada in 1964 when he was sixteen. He almost immediately began playing for St. Catharines Heidelberg in the National Soccer League and by 1970 was in the first team. In 1974, he played in the North American Soccer League with the Toronto Metros before returning", "id": "12329068" }, { "contents": "Gary Hasler\n\n\nGary Hasler (born 5 May 1970) is an Australian former association football player. he played in the National Soccer League for Sunshine George Cross and South Melbourne. In international football, he made two appearances for Australia and also represented the country at the 1992 Olympics. Hasler joined Sunshine George Cross in the National Soccer League in 1989. In 1992, he joined South Melbourne. After two seasons he moved to Heidelberg in the Victorian Premier League. Hasler was a member of the Australian squad at the 1992 Barcelona Olympics. In", "id": "18353802" }, { "contents": "Sebastian Ryall\n\n\nSebastian \"Seb\" Ryall (born 18 July 1989) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender, most recently for Sydney FC. Ryall played junior football for West Pymble Football Club in Sydney. Ryall later played for the AIS in the Victorian Premier League before signing for Melbourne Victory on a 2-year contract in August 2007. He made his first appearance for the club in their round 3 match against Adelaide United and played in their Grand Final win over Adelaide in March 2009. In April 2009", "id": "1237851" }, { "contents": "Cameron Watson (footballer)\n\n\nCameron Watson (born 31 May 1987) is a Scottish Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a defensive midfielder for National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side Moreland Zebras FC. Watson previously played in the youth and reserve teams of Portuguese Liga club FC Porto for one season before joining Dutch club VVV-Venlo, where he made a handful of appearances. From there he trained with both Melbourne Victory and Sydney FC in an intention to sign with either club before signing on with Melbourne Knights. Watson was linked to a move", "id": "15681415" }, { "contents": "Jack Ross (footballer, born 1976)\n\n\nJohn James Ross (born 5 June 1976) is a Scottish professional football coach and former player, who is currently the manager of English League One club Sunderland. During his playing career, Ross played as a defender and midfielder. From 1992 to 1995 he played for youth sides at Dundee and Forfar Athletic, before dropping to the Scottish Junior leagues for first team action at Camelon Juniors. He then returned to the Scottish Football League in 1999 with Clyde, before a short stint in England with Hartlepool United in 2004. He", "id": "9812399" }, { "contents": "Jesse Daley\n\n\nJesse Daley (born 16 October 1997) is an Australian soccer player who currently plays for Tacoma Defiance in the USL Championship. Daley spent time at Queensland Academy of Sport, before playing with the youth team at Brisbane Roar, before spending time with Melbourne Victory following his release from the club, before again playing with Brisbane Roar. Daley joined National Premier Leagues Victoria side South Melbourne FC ahead of their 2017 season. He left the club in January 2018, joining National Premier League side Lions FC. Following a trial, Daley", "id": "13637473" }, { "contents": "Steven Pace\n\n\nSteven Pace (born 6 March 1983) is an Australian footballer who plays for Heidelberg United FC. Earlier in his career, Pace played for various Victorian teams, including South Melbourne, Essendon Royals and the Preston Lions. He has been described as a \"utility\" player, having played as a midfielder as well as a central defender. He played in the latter position for the Preston Lions in their successful 2007 campaign, when they won the Victorian Premier League Championship. When the Melbourne Victory signed Pace in October 2007,", "id": "2478195" }, { "contents": "Evans Rusike\n\n\nEvans Rusike (born 13 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean footballer who plays as a forward for Premier Soccer League side Supersport United in South Africa. He also plays for the Zimbabwe national team. Rusike began his career in Zimbabwe with Kiglon in 2010, before moving to Zimbabwe Saints in 2012. Three years later, in 2015, he left his homeland for the first time as he agreed to join South African Premier Soccer League club Maritzburg United. His league debut came on 22 August against Ajax Cape Town. At the end", "id": "8298403" }, { "contents": "Tarek Elrich\n\n\nTarek Elrich (born 1 January 1987) is an Australian international football (soccer) player who plays as a right back and midfielder for Western Sydney Wanderers in the A-League. Elrich was born in Sydney, Australia. He started his senior career with Sydney Olympic, before moving to Newcastle Jets in 2006. In 2012, he moved to new club Western Sydney Wanderers before moving again to Adelaide United one season later. Tarek played youth football for Australia, before being called up to the Lebanon national team in 2012.", "id": "21014072" }, { "contents": "Dominic Smith (footballer)\n\n\nDominic Rooney Smith (born 22 September 1995) is an English footballer who plays as a forward for Northern Premier League North Division side Droylsden. He began his career with Crewe Alexandra, where he progressed through the club's Academy, but failed to make a first team appearance. He joined Colchester United in 2014, where he made his Football League debut in September 2014. He had a brief loan spell at A.F.C. Hornchurch, before leaving Colchester after the expiry of his one-year deal. He has since represented numerous Northern", "id": "18972781" }, { "contents": "Dave Harding\n\n\nDavid Harding (born 14 August 1946) is a former football (soccer) midfielder. He played for Wrexham from 1965 to 1966, then South Liverpool in the Northern Premier League, before moving to Australia where he played for Pan Hellenic, Western Suburbs, Blacktown City and APIA until 1981. In this time he won NSW representative honours in 1974 against Bristol Rovers. Harding was a member of the Australian 1974 World Cup squad in West Germany and represented Australia 45 times between 1974 and 1977 scoring 11 times. More recently he", "id": "3031486" }, { "contents": "George Howard (footballer)\n\n\nGeorge Howard (born 8 October 1996) is an English-born Australian professional footballer who plays as a striker. George Howard moved to Australia with his family aged 1 or 15 from England where he had participated in the Sheffield United Academy, and was playing senior football for then fourth tier Victorian State League Division 1 side Eastern Lions by age 16. Howard joined National Premier Leagues Victoria 1 club Box Hill United in 2014, and was recruited to the Melbourne Victory Youth squad by Darren Davies in 2015. He trialled with the", "id": "12301976" }, { "contents": "George Slifkas\n\n\nGeorge Slifkas (born 18 October 1969) is an Australian former association football player. Slifkas played for Preston Makedonia, Heidelberg United and West Adelaide in the National Soccer League in the late 1980s and early 1990s. From the mid-1990s he dropped down to the Victorian Premier League where he played for the Bulleen Lions, the Thomastown Zebras and the Melbourne Raiders. At the 1992 Barcelona Olympics Slifkas played four matches as Australia placed fourth. In 1993 Slifkas made his first and only international appearance for Australia as a substitute in a match against", "id": "18566415" }, { "contents": "Luciano Trani\n\n\nLuciano Trani (born 10 August 1966 in Melbourne, Victoria) is an Australian former football (soccer) player who was most recently the manager of National Premier Leagues Victoria 2 side North Geelong Warriors FC. Trani began coaching at the Victorian Premier League and National Soccer League levels with the Fawkner Blues, Essendon Royals, Whittlesea Stallions, Brisbane Strikers and the Melbourne Knights. He then took up roles as a coaching instructor for Football Federation Victoria and Head Coach of Pascoe Vale FC, before joining Wellington Phoenix. He then transferred to", "id": "3270514" }, { "contents": "Touk Miller\n\n\n. Such was his talent, he was selected to represent the under 15 Victorian state cricket team at the national championships in March 2011 and made his first XI debut for the North Melbourne Cricket Club at the Junction Oval in December 2011 before electing to focus on football the following year. Miller played all of his junior years with the Maribyrnong Park Lions in the Essendon District Football League and made his senior debut for the club in 2011 at the age of 15. He played junior football for both St Kevin's College in the", "id": "17982973" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Bullard\n\n\nJames Richard Bullard (born 23 October 1978) is an English former footballer, coach and television presenter. He is currently co-host of the Saturday morning Sky TV show Soccer AM. As a player he was a midfielder and played youth football at West Ham United before moving to Gravesend & Northfleet in 1998. Two seasons at Peterborough United was followed by a spell at Wigan Athletic where he scored ten goals in 145 league appearances, helping them to their first promotion to the Premier League. Bullard was known for being a", "id": "8289895" }, { "contents": "Kieran Dover\n\n\nKieran Dover is an Australian semi-professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for Green Gully in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. From Stockton-on-Tees, Dover started his career at the youth team of Sunderland before moving to Australia at the age of twelve, where he joined the youth ranks at Berwick City. He then eventually went on to join Dandenong Thunder of the NPL Victoria where he was named Winning Edge Presentations Rising Star of the Month in August. He also played for the Melbourne Victory youth sides in", "id": "8333803" }, { "contents": "Andrew Robertson\n\n\nAndrew Robertson (born 11 March 1994) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a left back for Premier League club Liverpool and captains the Scotland national team. Robertson began his senior career with Queen's Park in 2012 before joining Dundee United a year later. His form in his first season as a professional led to him being named SPFA Young Player of the Year and also making his international debut. He joined Hull City in July 2014 for a fee of £2.85 million, before joining Liverpool in July 2017 for an", "id": "17961904" }, { "contents": "Steve Hayward\n\n\nSteve Hayward (born 8 September 1971) is an English former professional footballer who played as a central midfielder in a sixteen-year career spanning from 1988 to 2004. Born in Pelsall near Walsall, Hayward began his career with Derby County and made his League debut in 1990, but found first-team opportunities limited. He joined Carlisle United in 1994 and won two promotions from Division Three and the 1997 Football League Trophy Final during his time at the club before moving to Fulham in 1997. He played a role in Fulham", "id": "6088205" }, { "contents": "Vince Lia\n\n\nVince Lia (born 18 March 1985) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Adelaide United in the A-League. Born in Shepparton, Lia played youth football in Victoria before making his senior debut with South Melbourne in the National Soccer League. He spent one season with Fawkner-Whittlesea Blues in 2005 before joining Melbourne Victory in 2005 to play in the newly-formed A-League. Lia next spent a decade at Wellington Phoenix, making over 200 appearances for the club in all competitions. He", "id": "5478442" }, { "contents": "Peter Stone (footballer)\n\n\nPeter Stone (born 30 September 1954) is an Australian former football (soccer) player. Stone played his junior football for Adamstown before playing for Western Suburbs in the New South Wales state league (1973–1976) and the National Soccer League (1977). In 1978, he moved to APIA Leichhardt, where he played three NSL seasons. Stone moved to St. George in 1980 where he played two seasons. Stone made his international debut for Australia in 1976 against Hong Kong. He also played over in England for Tottenham Hotspur", "id": "5877228" }, { "contents": "Sean Cranney\n\n\nSean Cranney (born 2 October 1973) is an Australian former association football player. Cranney played for Taringa Rovers Soccer Football Club before joining Brisbane United in the Queensland state league in 1992 and 1993. In 1994, he was signed to National Soccer League team Brisbane Strikers. At the Strikers he played five seasons before moving to Northern Spirit for the 1990/2000 season. Cranney played for Australia at the 1993 FIFA World Youth Championship. Cranney made his full international debut in November 1996 for Australia in an OFC Nations Cup match against New", "id": "18125994" }, { "contents": "Derek Spalding\n\n\nDerek Spalding (born 20 December 1954 in Dundee, Scotland) is a former soccer player, who played as a defender. Spalding played for Hibernian in the Scottish Football League until he emigrated to the United States in 1977. He then played seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and at least two in the Major Indoor Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the US national team, in 1982. Growing up in Scotland, Spalding signed with First Division club Hibernian as a youth player. He worked his way", "id": "11180604" }, { "contents": "Ross Barkley\n\n\n23-man squad for UEFA Euro 2016 but did not appear in any of England's matches. Managers and teammates have compared his style of play to those of Michael Ballack, Paul Gascoigne and Wayne Rooney. Barkley was born in Liverpool, Merseyside. He joined Everton as an 11-year-old and played for the club's youth teams. He was named as a substitute in a first team league match in early 2010–11, and was expected to make his Premier League debut before his leg was broken in one place after a collision with", "id": "7578236" }, { "contents": "Erick Chipeta\n\n\nErick Chipeta (born 28 June 1990) is a Zimbabwean professional footballer who plays as a defender and midfielder for the Zimbabwe national team. Chipeta started his career in Zimbabwe with Hwange Colliery, where he remained for two years before leaving his homeland for South Africa for the first time. 2014 saw Chipeta join newly promoted Premier Soccer League side Chippa United. He made his debut for Chippa in a 1–1 draw at home to Mamelodi Sundowns on 22 October. In total he made 18 appearances and scored 1 goal in his first season", "id": "6134269" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\nShaun Antony Rooney (born 26 July 1996) is a Scottish professional footballer who plays as a defender for Scottish Championship club Inverness Caledonian Thistle. Rooney has previously played for Queen's Park, Dunfermline Athletic, York City and Queen of the South. Rooney was born in Bellshill, North Lanarkshire. Rooney started his career playing youth football with Bellshill Boys Club and Dundee United, before signing with Scottish League Two club Queen's Park in July 2013. Rooney's first-team debut came shortly after signing for the club, in", "id": "16210765" }, { "contents": "Robert Trajkovski\n\n\nRobert Trajkovski (born 24 July 1972) is an Australian former footballer. Trajkovski began his senior career with Altona before moving to National Soccer League team Melbourne City. After a season with Melbourne City Trajkovski transferred to Sydney United. He played two season for United between 1995 and 1997. In the 1997/98 season Trajkovski played for Carlton, playing 22 matches. Trajkovski moved to Perth Glory for the 1998/99 season. After playing 73 matches over three seasons for the Glory he moved to Northern Spirit where he saw out his top flight career", "id": "5112927" }, { "contents": "Sasa Macura\n\n\nSasa Macura is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays as a midfielder for Manly United in the National Premier Leagues NSW. Born in Australia, Macura played youth football for Northern Tigers, APIA Leichhardt and Bonnyrigg White Eagles before moving to Hungary. There, he made his professional debut for MTK Budapest as well as playing in the Nemzeti Bajnokság II for MTK's reserve team and Szigetszentmiklósi. In 2014, he returned to Australia to play for Blacktown City. He moved to Manly United in 2017. Macura was born in", "id": "14725944" }, { "contents": "Phil Jones (footballer, born 1992)\n\n\nPhilip Anthony Jones (born 21 February 1992) is an English professional footballer who plays for club Manchester United and the English national team. Before joining Manchester United, Jones played for Blackburn Rovers at both youth and senior levels. Although primarily a centre-back, he has also been used as a right-back or defensive midfielder. Jones has represented England at various levels and is currently a member of the England senior squad. He played for the under-19 team in 2009 before making his debut for the under-21 team in 2010", "id": "13966664" }, { "contents": "Paul Bilokapic\n\n\nPaul Bilokapic (born 8 August 1976) is an Australian former soccer player. He played as a midfielder. After playing youth football for Yaralla, he moved to Sydney Croatia (later Sydney United) where he played until the end of the 1997–98 National Soccer League season. After two seasons with Northern Spirit FC, he returned to Sydney United, where he played until the end of the 2002–03 National Soccer League season. Bilokapic made his full international debut for Australia in February 1998 in a friendly match against Chile. He made", "id": "10116884" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Jackson (footballer, born 1875)\n\n\nJames Jackson (15 September 1875 – after 1914) was a footballer who played as a full back or at wing half. Jackson's family emigrated from Scotland to Australia where he was raised and where he began his senior football career while still in his early teens. He returned to Scotland in 1893, appearing in Junior football and briefly for Rangers before moving to England to join Newcastle United. Two years later he signed for Woolwich Arsenal where he spent six seasons, captaining the club in its inaugural season in the Football League", "id": "19786821" }, { "contents": "David Carney\n\n\nDavid Raymond Carney (born 30 November 1983) is an Australian association football midfielder who last played for A-League side Sydney FC. Born in Sydney, he began his playing career with the New South Wales Institute of Sport before moving to England to join Everton. Having failed to break into the Everton first team he then moved to Oldham Athletic, Halifax Town and Hamilton Academical in Scotland before returning to his native Australia. After a successful spell with Sydney FC, Carney then returned to England, signing with Sheffield United before", "id": "3576647" }, { "contents": "John Pritchard (footballer)\n\n\nJohn Vincent Pritchard (born 29 September 1995) is an English professional footballer who plays as a defender or midfielder for Ashton United. Pritchard was in his youth a trainee by Manchester United, before joined in April 2012 to Oldham Athletic. He made his debut for Oldham Athletic on 21 December 2013 in a 2–0 defeat to Colchester United at Boundary Park, he came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Adam Rooney. After two seasons was released and joined in August 2014 to FC United of Manchester of the Northern Premier League", "id": "278653" }, { "contents": "APIA Leichhardt Tigers FC\n\n\nhistory of the club when skipper Jimmy Rooney and centreforward Peter Ollerton, who scored five goals, won 9–1 against Auburn in front of a crowd of 5210 at Wentworth Park, the highest finals result ever. Rooney and Ollerton were also in the team that represented Australia a few months later in its first World Cup participation in Germany. In 1979 APIA was given access to the National Soccer League, the top tier of Australian soccer since 1977. In 1987 APIA won the national championship, six points ahead of the Preston Makedonia Soccer", "id": "17492652" }, { "contents": "Ante Moric\n\n\nAnte Tomislav Moric (born 19 April 1974) is an Australian former professional soccer player who played as a midfielder. He is currently the head coach of National Premier Leagues Victoria side Dandenong City SC. Moric played at club level in Australia and Croatia for St. George, AIS, Sydney United, Zadar, Canberra Cosmos, Sydney Olympic, Fraser Park, APIA Leichhardt Tigers and Rockdale City Suns. He also participated at the 1996 Summer Olympics. After a stint with the youth side of National Premier Leagues NSW 2 side St George", "id": "5169013" }, { "contents": "John May (Australian footballer)\n\n\nJohn May (born 15 April 1951) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). May was recruited to play for Essendon's under-19s from West Coburg in the Essendon District Football League. In 1970, his second season with the under-19s, he was named captain and also played several matches in the reserves before making his senior VFL debut late in the season. He kicked one goal from his three games playing as a midfielder and stayed with Essendon for another year, but", "id": "16685305" }, { "contents": "Andrew Fox (footballer)\n\n\nAndrew Thomas Philip Fox (born 15 January 1993) is an English professional footballer who currently plays as a left back for USL Championship club El Paso Locomotive. Fox began his playing career during his time at university, playing football in the USA for 4 years with St. Edward's University Soccer Team. After a short spell at Texan club Midland/Odessa Sockers, Fox moved back to England in July 2015, where he joined League One side Peterborough United on a free transfer. He joined National League side Kidderminster Harriers on loan", "id": "3891979" }, { "contents": "Petar Franjic\n\n\nPetar Franjic (born 7 April 1992) is an Australian footballer who currently plays for Avondale FC in the National Premier Leagues Victoria. Franjic joined the Melbourne Knights FC under 21 squad in 2009 after spending a number of years with the Victorian Institute of Sport. That year, he made his breakthrough into senior football, making six appearances for the first team in the Victorian Premier League in the first half of the season. He was then picked up by A-League side Melbourne Victory FC, initially with the youth team.", "id": "1076969" }, { "contents": "Jacob Burns (soccer)\n\n\nJacob Geoffrey Burns (born 21 April 1978 in Sydney, Australia) is a retired Australian football (soccer) player who last played for A-League club Perth Glory. Jacob Burns began his career with the local team Sydney United. He then moved to local rivals Parramatta Power, whom he left in 2000 to join the Premier League club Leeds United. They signed him as squad cover, and he only played eleven games during his three-year stay. His contract was allowed to run out, and on 17 October", "id": "5439205" }, { "contents": "Zander Diamond\n\n\nAlexander Kevin \"Zander\" Diamond (born 12 March 1985) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He began his career with Scottish Premier League club Aberdeen, before moving to Oldham Athletic in 2011; he later played for Burton Albion, Northampton Town and Mansfield Town in England. He won eleven caps for Scotland under-21s. Raised in the west of Scotland in Dumbarton, Alexandria-born Diamond graduated from the youth team at Aberdeen in his first full season and made his League debut against Dundee", "id": "20263817" }, { "contents": "Hilton Kotzur\n\n\nHilton Kotzur (born 20 January 1964) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with the Sydney Swans in the Victorian Football League (VFL). Kotzur represented New South Wales as a junior, but was also a member of the Victorian team which won the 1981 Teal Cup, earning All-Australian honours He joined the Swans when they were still based in Melbourne and played both Under-19s and reserves football for the club, before he fractured two vertebrae in 1982. The back injury stalled his career and it was not until", "id": "20658877" }, { "contents": "Christopher Forrester\n\n\nChristopher Stephen Forrester (born 17 December 1992) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for St Patrick's Athletic in the League of Ireland Premier Division. He has also previously played for Bohemians, Peterborough United, Aberdeen and the Republic of Ireland under-21's. In March 2016 he was called up to the Republic of Ireland senior squad but has yet to be capped. Forrester started his schoolboy career with his local team, Smithfield, where he stayed for three seasons. He played for Bohemians for three seasons before", "id": "3737210" }, { "contents": "James Meyer (footballer)\n\n\nJames Meyer (born 28 May 1986) is an Australian professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for National Premier Leagues Queensland club Brisbane City. Born in Sydney, Meyer started his youth career with Brisbane City FC in 2005. The following year Meyer went to Europe and signed on as a youth player for Bohemian F.C. of Ireland and then Hertha BSC of Germany the next year. He then returned to Australia in 2008 to play for Olympic FC of the Queensland State League before joining Eastern Suburbs F.C. of the Brisbane Premier League", "id": "21300581" }, { "contents": "Billy Ions\n\n\nRooney and Spanish forward Fernando Torres to whom he compared himself to. Ions first started playing football in the youth team of the local village of Valle de San Lorenzo in Tenerife, named \"Constanza\". Years later he started to play in the football school of Juan Miguel. At the age of 15, Ions joined the youth setup at CD Tenerife. In February 2010, he returned to England to join Newcastle United, the club he supported as a child. He made his Under-18's debut in a home match against", "id": "2185330" }, { "contents": "Jason Geria\n\n\nJason Kato Geria (born 10 May 1993) is an Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a defender for JEF United Chiba in the J2 League and for the Australia national team. Born in Canberra, Geria played youth football with the Australian Institute of Sport and Brisbane Roar youth before joining Melbourne Victory in 2012, where he made his professional debut and played for five years. Geria was born in Canberra to Ugandan parents. Geria's first youth club was Weston Creek SC in Canberra. He also played in", "id": "13593993" }, { "contents": "Vincent Bezecourt\n\n\nVincent Bezecourt (born 10 June 1993) is a French footballer who plays as a midfielder for the New York Red Bulls of Major League Soccer. Bezecourt began his football career in France with Jeunesse Villenavaise and made his debut with the first team during the 2012 season in Championnat de France amateur. In two season with the first team, he appeared in 52 league matches scoring 9 goals. In 2014, he went to the United States to play College soccer for St. Francis Brooklyn under head coach Tom Giovatto. In his first", "id": "7942392" }, { "contents": "Oliver Puflett\n\n\nOliver Puflett (born 26 July 1999) is an Australian soccer player who plays as a striker for S.League club Home United. Puflett started his career with the Western Sydney Wanderers FC, playing for its Under-21 team, scoring 5 goals in 11 games over 2 years. He also won the Y-League title in the 2017-18 season with them. He played for the Western Sydney Wanderers FC Under-21 squad before signing his first professional contract and joining Singapore Premier League side Home United FC in March 2019. He then made", "id": "9045653" }, { "contents": "Massimo Luongo\n\n\nMassimo Corey Luongo ( ; born 25 September 1992) is an Australian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for club Queens Park Rangers and the Australian national team. Born in Sydney, Luongo played youth football for APIA Leichhardt Tigers before moving to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he started his professional career. Following a loan spell at Ipswich Town, he played on loan at Swindon Town, a move which was eventually made permanent. He joined current club Queens Park Rangers in 2015. Luongo has played for the Australia", "id": "15251787" }, { "contents": "Graham Moss\n\n\nGraham Moss (born 14 May 1950) is a former Australian rules footballer and coach, who was highly successful in both the West Australian Football League (WAFL) and the Victorian Football League (VFL). He was a Brownlow Medal-winning ruckman and played 343 senior games in the WAFL and VFL. Moss debuted for Claremont Football Club in the WAFL in 1969. In 1970, he made his debut for the Western Australian state team. Essendon attempted to lure him to Melbourne several times, and finally succeeded before the", "id": "15698753" }, { "contents": "Luke Power\n\n\nLuke Power (born 8 January 1980) is a former professional Australian rules footballer who played for the Brisbane Lions and Greater Western Sydney Giants in the Australian Football League (AFL). A member of the Brisbane Lions's 2001, 2002, and 2003 premiership winning teams, he played 282 games for the Lions before moving to Greater Western Sydney where he played his final season. He is currently serving as the midfield coach of the Giants. Power debuted for the Lions as an 18-year-old in 1998, and he has", "id": "12553548" }, { "contents": "Robert Ironside (footballer)\n\n\nRobert Ironside (born 20 August 1967) is a former association football player who represented New Zealand internationally in the late 1980s and early 1990s. His club career began with North Shore United before he moved to Australia to join Sydney Olympic in the Australian National Soccer League. After seven seasons with Sydney, Ironside moved for two seasons to Newcastle Breakers He had a year playing for South China and came back to Australia played one season with Sydney Olympic before finishing off in Newcastle Ironside made his All White debut in a 1-1", "id": "19673589" }, { "contents": "James Jeggo\n\n\nJames Alexander Jeggo ( ; born 12 February 1992) is an Austrian-born Australian professional football (soccer) player who plays as a central midfielder for Austria Wien in the Austrian Bundesliga and the Australian national team. Born in Vienna, Austria, Jeggo moved to Australia as a child, where he started his footballing career in youth football with Green Gully and at the Victorian Institute of Sport before making his professional debut for Melbourne Victory. Jeggo was born in Vienna, Austria. He moved to Australia as a child, growing", "id": "5614644" }, { "contents": "Jason Trifiro\n\n\nJason Trifiro (born 3 June 1988) is an Australian football (soccer) player who plays for Nunawading City in the National Premier Leagues Victoria 2. Trifiro started his career in the semi-professional lower leagues in Australia, playing in New South Wales for National Premier Leagues NSW clubs Marconi Stallions, APIA Leichhardt and the South Coast Wolves. In 2011, he moved to Victoria where he played the 2011 Victorian Premier League with Northcote alongside his brother, before they both moved to ex-NSL heavyweight South Melbourne in the National", "id": "7283672" }, { "contents": "Stephen Glass (footballer)\n\n\nStephen Glass (born 23 May 1976) is a former Scottish professional footballer who is the current head coach of Atlanta United 2 in the USL Championship. A midfielder, Glass started his career at Aberdeen, with whom he won the 1995 Scottish League Cup. In 1998, he moved to England, transferring to Newcastle United of the Premier League. Shortly after joining Newcastle, Glass made an appearance for the Scotland national football team. He joined Watford in the First Division in 2001, before returning to Scotland in 2003 with Hibernian", "id": "19685891" }, { "contents": "Stephen O'Donnell (footballer, born 1983)\n\n\nStephen James O'Donnell (born 10 July 1983) is a Scottish footballer who plays as a midfielder. He began his career with Dundee United, making his debut in 2002. He spent time on loan with Ross County before leaving Dundee United in 2005 to play briefly in England with Boston United. Returning to Scottish football, O'Donnell had spells with Clyde and St Mirren before joining Dundee in 2010, where he later became club captain. He rejoined Clyde in 2014 and left the club in 2015. He was a Scotland under-20 international", "id": "10873501" }, { "contents": "Brian Robinson (soccer)\n\n\nBrian Robinson (born 1953) is a former Canadian national soccer team player. He was born in Victoria, British Columbia. He started playing at the age of ten with the Evening Optimist Club in his home town and later starred in the Victoria High School team that reached the B.C. High School final in 1966. At 17 he was playing for Vic West in the Victoria City League where he played for two years before joining Victoria United in the Pacific Coast League. By 1970 he was playing in the Western Canada Soccer League", "id": "11330905" }, { "contents": "Daniel McBreen\n\n\nDaniel James McBreen (born 23 April 1977) is a semi-professional footballer who plays as a striker for National Premier Leagues Northern NSW club Edgeworth, and is a coach with Newcastle Jets U15. Born in England, McBreen moved to Australia with his family when he was six weeks old and started his career in local football with Toronto Awaba Stags and Edgeworth Eagles. He earned a professional contract with National Soccer League club Newcastle United in 2000, where he played for two seasons before joining Universitatea Craiova of the Romanian Divizia A.", "id": "9649312" }, { "contents": "Tomislav Uskok\n\n\nTomislav Uskok (born 22 July 1991) is an Australian footballer who plays for Sydney United in the National Premier Leagues. Uskok came through the junior ranks at local club Melbourne Knights. He departed the club in 2009 in search of first team football, subsequently joining Victorian Premier League side Richmond SC. With first team opportunities scarce for the 18-year-old, he then joined Victorian State League Division 1 side St Albans Saints for the second half of the 2010 season. In 2011, Uskok returned to Melbourne Knights. In 2014", "id": "8367993" }, { "contents": "Austin Berry (soccer)\n\n\nthe newly-formed club FC Cincinnati in the lower division United Soccer League. He served as FC Cincinnati's team captain for two seasons before retiring from his playing career and accepting a position as the club's strength and conditioning coach. Born in Cincinnati, Ohio, he attended the Summit Country Day School for high school where he played four fall seasons of soccer. With a 14–1–1 record during his senior year, Berry contributed 10 goals, 6 assists, and led his team to the Regional finals. He earned first team", "id": "19581628" }, { "contents": "Gary Smith (footballer, born 1968)\n\n\nGary Neil Smith (born 3 December 1968) is an English former footballer. He is currently Head Coach & Technical Director of Nashville SC in the United Soccer League, the second tier in the US soccer pyramid. Smith's playing career began at Fulham, progressing through the youth team before making one first-team appearance for the club. After a brief spell with Colchester United, Smith joined non-league side Enfield in 1989. His most successful spell during his playing days was at Wycombe Wanderers, spending two seasons with", "id": "686418" }, { "contents": "Lee Scroggins\n\n\nLeepaul Scroggins (born 23 October 1981) is an English footballer who played as a midfielder for South Shields. Scroggins began his career with Darlington, but moved on to Northern Premier League Premier Division club Blyth Spartans in 2001 without having played for Darlington's first team. He spent just over a year with Spartans, before joining Whitley Bay of the Northern League for the remainder of the 2002–03 season. Scroggins then moved to the United States, where he had a successful college soccer career at Lynn University, graduating in Sports Recreation", "id": "8969031" }, { "contents": "Brad Smith (footballer, born 1948)\n\n\nBrad R. Smith (born 3 December 1948) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with North Melbourne in the Victorian Football League (VFL) during the 1970s. He also had a long career in the West Australian National Football League (WANFL) where he played for East Perth and coached East Fremantle. Smith was a late comer to VFL football as he had spent eight years at East Perth before joining North Melbourne. He was a member of East Perth's 1972 and 1978 premiership teams and a back pocket player in", "id": "8985200" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Dunne (footballer, born 1997)\n\n\nJames Gerard Dunne (born 19 October 1997) is an Irish professional footballer who plays as a centre back for club Burnley. Dunne played locally in Ireland before joining the youth set-up at Manchester United in 2007. After transferring to Burnley in 2016, he spent time on loan at Barrow (where he made his senior debut in August 2017) and Accrington Stanley (where he made his Football League debut in January 2018). Born in Dundalk Dunne began his career with St Kevin's Boys Club before joining the Manchester", "id": "18334762" }, { "contents": "Shaun Rooney\n\n\na Scottish Challenge Cup defeat against Ayr United at Hampden Park. During the 2013–14 season, Rooney made 11 appearances for Queen's Park. His breakthrough season came in 2014–15, when he played in 30 matches, scoring his first goal on 15 November 2014 with a header against Elgin City in a 4–1 win. Rooney's impressive performances for Queen's Park saw him awarded the club's Young Player of the Year and also being named in the PFA Scotland Scottish League Two Team of the Year. The start of 2015–16 saw Rooney", "id": "16210766" }, { "contents": "Jonas Salley\n\n\nGyawe Jonas Salley (born 16 March 1982 in Ivory Coast) is a former Ivorian-Australian footballer, who last played for Hohhot Zhongyou in China League One. He is currently an assistant coach for Qingdao Red Lions. Salley moved to Australia to escape from the civil and government problems of his home country in 2006. He first played at Mill Park Soccer Club, where his outstanding performances were noticed within a very short time. He was eventually signed up to play with Victorian Premier League side South Melbourne. He was then", "id": "20136861" }, { "contents": "Alan Green (soccer)\n\n\nAlan Green (born 1 January 1954) is a former professional footballer. Born in England, he began his career with Coventry City before moving to the United States in 1979. He played a total of seven seasons in the North American Soccer League and earned one cap with the U.S. national team. Green, a native of Worcester, England, began his professional career with Coventry City. He joined the club as a striker in 1970, but did not make his first team debut until April 22, 1972, which was", "id": "15514446" }, { "contents": "Tommy Kelly (footballer)\n\n\nTommy Kelly was an Irish soccer player during the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s. A dynamic midfielder, he is quite simply a Bohemian F.C. legend, his career at Dalymount Park spanning 3 different decades. He appeared in a club record 19 games in European competition and won 2 League of Ireland titles. He joined Bohs in 1965/66 and played as a full back in the \"B\" team. He made his debut for the first team as a substitute in a 4-1 win over Drogheda on April 10, 1966.", "id": "14451234" }, { "contents": "Kevin Egan\n\n\nKevin Egan (born 10 September 1943) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League during the 1960s. Egan was a good youth player at Essendon and won a Morrish Medal in 1962 for his performances in the Under-19s. The following season he made his first senior appearance and played in Essendon's 1965 premiership team. Egan was used mostly as a rover and wingman. After leaving Essendon Egan spent some time at both South Australian National Football League (SANFL) club Port Adelaide and the Victorian", "id": "1551420" }, { "contents": "Kenny Hill (association footballer)\n\n\nKenneth George Hill (born 7 March 1953) is an English former association football defender who played professionally in England and the North American Soccer League. In 1971, he joined Gillingham, playing 125 league matches before leaving the team for the United States in 1974. That year, he signed with the Baltimore Comets of the North American Soccer League. He also played for the Washington Diplomats in 1977. He also played for Maidstone United, where he began his career, Lincoln City, with whom he made a single appearance in", "id": "347314" }, { "contents": "Ray Farningham\n\n\nRay Farningham (born 10 April 1961 in Dundee) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a midfielder for a handful of Scottish clubs. He previously managed Forfar Athletic, Montrose and was the assistant manager of Dundee. Ray is now assistant manager at junior side Lochee United F.C. Farningham trained as a youth with Dundee United before beginning his senior career with Forfar Athletic, making his debut towards the end of the 1970s. In his seven years at Station Park, Farningham was part of the sides which won the 1983–84 Scottish Second", "id": "3703221" }, { "contents": "Jimmy Kirk\n\n\nJames Kirk (born 12 November 1925) is a Scottish former footballer who played as a goalkeeper in the Scottish Football League for St Mirren and in the Football League for Bury, Colchester United, Torquay United and Aldershot. Born in Tarbolton, Kirk began his career in Scotland with St Mirren, where he made 86 league appearances for the club, before moving to England to play for Bury, where he featured in 79 Football League matches. Kirk joined Colchester United in 1954 and spent one season with the club, making his", "id": "21920041" }, { "contents": "Gary Crouch\n\n\nGary Crouch (born 27 September 1946) is a former Australian rules footballer who played with Essendon in the Victorian Football League (VFL). After leaving Essendon, Crouch played for Rochester for one season before moving to Western Australia and joining Subiaco in the West Australian Football League (WAFL). He spent four seasons with Subiaco, playing on half back flank in the 1973 WAFL winning Grand Final team. He then moved back to Victoria to the Bendigo Football League (BFL). Crouch played one season with South Bendigo and", "id": "16878056" }, { "contents": "Neil Jenkins (footballer)\n\n\nNeil Jenkins (born 6 January 1982) is an English footballer who last played for Leatherhead F.C. as a left footed defender and midfielder. He started his career as a trainee at Wimbledon before transferring to the then Division Three side Southend United for two seasons, then joining the non league team of Crawley Town and later Eastbourne Borough. During his career, Jenkins has earned a cap for the England Under-20 national team. Born in Carshalton, London, Jenkins joined the Essex based team Southend United in July 2002, on a one", "id": "9293884" }, { "contents": "John Reilly (footballer, born 1962)\n\n\nJohn Reilly (born 21 March 1962 in Dundee) is a Scottish former professional footballer who played as a striker. Reilly began his career with Dundee United, signing as a schoolboy from Strathtay Boys Club in 1979. He played for the Scotland Under 17 and Under 18 professional youth sides before making his first team debut in August 1980. He was a member of the squad that won a Premier League Winners medal in season 1982–1983 before going onto score the club's first ever goal in the European Cup the following season. Signing", "id": "10817319" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]

[ { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nAppollo was a search and rescue dog who served with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department. He was awarded the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in recognition of the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the September 11 attacks. Appollo and his handler were working at the World Trade Center site soon after the attacks. Appollo was a German Shepherd born around 1992, who was in service with the K-9 unit of the New York Police Department (NYPD). In 1994", "id": "3459675" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\nin to assist with the rescue operations after the September 11 terror attacks. They arrived at the World Trade Center site fifteen minutes after the fall of the twin towers, making Appollo the first search and rescue dog to arrive at the site. At one point, Appollo was almost killed by flames and falling debris. However, he survived, having been drenched after falling into a pool of water just before this incident. Appollo started working again as soon as Davis had brushed the debris off him. Appollo received the Dickin Medal", "id": "3459677" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, he graduated from the NYPD Canine Special Operations Division, and was one of the first dogs to learn search and rescue. Appollo passed Type-II training in Florida in 1997, and Type-I in Indianapolis in 1999. He was also part of the first NYPD K-9 team to pass them for Urban Search and Rescue New York Task Force 1. Appollo and his handler Peter Davis also worked in the Dominican Republic after a hurricane. Appollo died in November 2006. Appollo and his handler, Peter Davis, were called", "id": "3459676" }, { "contents": "Appollo (dog)\n\n\n, the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross, on behalf of all the search and rescue dogs who participated in the rescue operations at the World Trade Center site and the Pentagon. He received the award along with guide dogs Roselle and Salty, who rescued their owners from the World Trade Center. The citation for the award was as follows: Appollo received the American Kennel Club Ace award in 2001. He was also honoured for his work at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show of 2002, in which he and several other dogs", "id": "3459678" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nYork on September 11, 2001.\" This was not the only Dickin Medal to be awarded for actions related to the attacks; German Shepherd Appollo received a medal on behalf of all the work done by all search and rescue dogs following the attacks. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of the Victoria Cross. In addition to the Dickin Medal, Salty and Roselle were also each recognized by the British Guide Dogs for the Blind Association. Salty and Rivera were awarded a 'Partners in Courage'", "id": "14082899" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n.\" Jake was most noted for his work following the September 11 attacks, where he helped search for human remains at Ground Zero. Jake, like other rescue workers and dogs, was honored by New Yorkers as a hero. Jake, wearing his search and rescue vest, was treated to a free steak dinner at an upscale Manhattan restaurant on the evening he arrived to work in New York City. Jake served as a rescue dog at the World Trade Center site for 17 days. Like the humans and other rescue dogs", "id": "12469735" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1\n\n\nUrban Search and Rescue Colorado Task Force 1 (CO-TF1) is a FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force based in Colorado. They were one of the 20 FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force teams deployed to the World Trade Center site after the September 11, 2001 attacks. The task force is sponsored by the West Metro Fire Protection District and is made up of 70 positions with over 200 trained members including firefighters, paramedics, engineers and canine handlers. CO-TF1 has taken part in the following deployments:", "id": "640137" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nof Oakley, Utah, before his death. Jake was 12 years old when he died. It is unknown whether Jake's cancer can be linked to his rescue work at Ground Zero. Cancer is a very common disease for dogs around Jake's age. Some rescue dog owners have claimed that their dogs have died because of their exposure to the air at the World Trade Center site in the aftermath of the September 11 attacks. However, scientists who have studied the health of rescue animals who worked Ground Zero have found no", "id": "12469738" }, { "contents": "LAPD Metropolitan Division\n\n\nhandlers and their canine partners to conduct searches and apprehend felony suspects throughout the Los Angeles area. K-9 personnel are deployed around-the-clock, seven days a week. They are available to assist any LAPD department with searches for felony suspects. Two K-9 officers have also been trained in search and rescue operations using dogs. In 1990, the Liberty Award was created for police dogs who are killed or seriously injured in the line of duty. The medal, which is named after Liberty, a Metropolitan Division K-9 who was", "id": "4910429" }, { "contents": "Caroline Hebard\n\n\nArmenia, Japan and Turkey, using the ability of the dogs to located trapped survivors. She also participated with her dogs in rescue and recovery operations involving bridge collapses, floods, fires, and people lost in the wilderness. She and her dogs also participated in search and rescue operations in the aftermath of the Oklahoma City bombing and the September 11 World Trade Center attack. Hebard received various honors for her work and is the subject of a book, \"So That Others May Live: Carolyn Hebard and Her Search-and", "id": "18581753" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nreceived a kiss on the nose from Princess Elizabeth, the future Elizabeth II. He was later used to demonstrate mountain rescue techniques to other rescue dogs and handlers. He returned home to Mrs Stables, and moved to a PDSA animal sanctuary before he died. Peter was buried at the PDSA's Ilford Animal Cemetery on 20 November 1952, one of twelve recipients of the Dickin Medal to be buried there. Peter was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals, in November 1945. His citation read", "id": "6093678" }, { "contents": "Vinnie Ferrari\n\n\na wrestler. He was booked for the first time as a wrestler in 1999, when he lost to Big Poppa Chill in Cheektowaga, New York. In late 1999/early 2001 Vinnie began training future independent wrestling star \"Poison\" Appollo Starr. Appollo would go on to get further training from Jimmy KillKillia and American Kickboxer at the R.A.A.G.E. Dojo. He still credits Vinnie for teaching him to work left, how to bump and some of the finer points of pro wrestling as well helping him get booked for his first match", "id": "1416977" }, { "contents": "Rex (search and rescue dog)\n\n\nRex was a dog who received the Dickin Medal in April, 1945 from the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals for bravery in service during the Second World War. This MAP Civil Defence Rescue Dog performed “outstanding good work\" finding casualties \"in burning buildings.\" Rex intrepidly worked in a harsh environment of \"smouldering debris, thick smoke, intense heat and jets of water\" using a rare combination of determination and intelligence to follow scents to those who were trapped. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal", "id": "12484985" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nAna (July 4, 1995 – November 12, 2008) was a golden retriever search and rescue dog, known for having been the first graduate of the Search Dog Foundation's training program. Ana was one of the first search dogs to be deployed to the site of the World Trade Center. Ana was born to a backyard breeder, and proved to be too active to work as an assistance dog. Bonnie Bergin, the Executive Director of the Assistance Dog Institute, decided that Ana might be better suited as a search", "id": "5821095" }, { "contents": "Ana (search dog)\n\n\nand rescue dog, and suggested her to Wilma Melville, the head of the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was trained at a kennel in Gilroy, California, and, upon graduation, she was the first nationally certified Fire Department Disaster Search Canine and the first dog certified by the Search Dog Foundation. Ana was assigned to the Sacramento, California Fire Department, where she was paired with fire captain Rick Lee. Besides the World Trade Center search, Ana and Captain Lee were involved in several other searches, including the sites of", "id": "5821096" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nPeter (1941–1952) was a collie dog who in 1945 was awarded the Dickin Medal, considered to be the Victoria Cross for animals. During the later stages of the Second World War he served as a search and rescue dog in London. He attended the 1946 Civil Defence Stand–Down parade, where he was presented to the King and Queen, and Princess Elizabeth. His medal was auctioned in 2000 for £4,600 (US$6,964). Peter was born in 1941, and was purchased by Mrs Audrey Stables, of", "id": "6093674" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nsearch and rescue work, but took to it instinctively. In twelve months between 1940 and 1941, he found over a hundred victims of the air raids in London. His success has been held partially responsible for prompting the authorities to train search and rescue dogs towards the end of World War II. Rip was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, two years after it was introduced. The citation reads: \"For locating many air-raid victims during the blitz of 1940\". He would go on to wear the medal", "id": "12182233" }, { "contents": "Gautam Das\n\n\nthat they had killed Gautam Das for publishing news on the corruption of Faridpur Mujib Road repairing works in the newspaper. Of the nine convicts, Appollo went in hiding on June 19, 2013 after the court had fixed June 27, 2013 for delivering the judgment in the case. Punishment of Appollo was effective from the day of his arrest or surrender, added by the court. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin also fined 50,000 each and in default they will have to suffer one additional year in jail. During the court date, 27", "id": "12993285" }, { "contents": "Rip (dog)\n\n\nRip (died 1946), a mixed-breed terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. He was found in Poplar, London, in 1940 by an Air Raid warden, and became the service's first search and rescue dog. He is credited with saving the lives of over 100 people. He was the first of twelve Dickin Medal winners to be buried in the PDSA's cemetery in Ilford, Essex. Rip was found as a stray following", "id": "12182231" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nto be family pets by the handlers when the dogs are not on duty. The canine rescuers will become unmotivated if they are unsuccessful in locating victims, as they consider search and rescue to be a type of game. To keep the canines engaged after long hours of working, one of the Task Force members will hide in the rubble so the dog will have a successful 'find'. In most instances, the dogs do not wear any equipment (collars, vests, booties, etc.) while working a debris", "id": "21101737" }, { "contents": "Beauty (dog)\n\n\nBeauty (4 January 1939 – 17 October 1950), a wirehaired terrier, was a Second World War search and rescue dog considered to be the first rescue dog, who was awarded the Dickin Medal for bravery in 1945. She is among a number of Dickin Medal winners who are buried in Ilford Animal Cemetery. Beauty was born on 4 January 1939, and was owned by PDSA Superintendent Bill Barnet, who led one of the rescue squads in London for animals during the Blitz. The dog would accompany Barnet on rescue missions", "id": "13803419" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\n1. Utah Task Force 1 is a federal search and rescue team trained to respond to disasters. Following his recovery from his injuries, Flood helped to train Jake to become a federal \"U.S. government certified\" rescue dog. There are fewer than 200 of these dogs, who are trained to respond within 24 hours to disasters such as hurricanes, earthquakes, wilderness, water rescue, terrorist attacks, or avalanches. Jake's owner later commented, \"...\"against all odds he became a world-class rescue dog\"", "id": "12469734" }, { "contents": "Sheila (dog)\n\n\nthe bombs on the B-17 detonated. Because of their actions, Lt George Kyle, Sgt Howard Delaney, Sgt George Smith and Sgt Joel Berly survived the crash. For the rescue of the airmen, Sheila was awarded the Dickin Medal by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. It is often referred to as the animal equivalent of the Victoria Cross. It was the first time that the medal had been awarded to a non-military dog, this time a search and rescue dog. Meanwhile, Dagg was given the British", "id": "12484683" }, { "contents": "Photios of Korytsa\n\n\nthe initiative for the creation of the \"Appollo\" music association and the charitable society \"Love thy Neighbour\" as part of his educational, cultural and social initiatives in Korce. Moreover, \"Appollo\" for a short term period was also undertaking concerts and theatrical performances. Photios was assassinated on September 9, 1906 by a band of Albanian kachak nationalists, led by Bajo Topulli. The assassination was committed because Photios was against the development of Albanian cultural activity, as well as an act of revenge for the killing of the", "id": "17493402" }, { "contents": "Bretagne (rescue dog)\n\n\nBretagne (c. September 1999 – June 7, 2016) was a Golden Retriever rescue dog who searched for survivors at Ground Zero after the September 11 attacks. It was the first assignment for her and her owner and trainer, Denise Corliss. She appeared on the \"Today Show\" along with NBC News’ Tom Brokaw. She later participated in rescue efforts after Hurricanes Katrina and Ivan. She was retired at the age of 9. After her retirement, she continued her community service as a reading dog at a local elementary", "id": "13232350" }, { "contents": "September 11 attacks\n\n\nissued evacuation warnings. Due to technical difficulties with malfunctioning radio repeater systems, many firefighters never heard the evacuation orders. 9-1-1 dispatchers also received information from callers that was not passed along to commanders on the scene. Within hours of the attack, a substantial search and rescue operation was launched. After months of around-the-clock operations, the World Trade Center site was cleared by the end of May 2002. The aftermath of the 9/11 attack resulted in immediate responses to the event, including domestic reactions", "id": "20633661" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nPlaza, were in danger of collapsing. The search and rescue effort in the immediate aftermath at the World Trade Center site involved ironworkers, structural engineers, heavy machinery operators, asbestos workers, boilermakers, carpenters, cement masons, construction managers, electricians, insulation workers, machinists, plumbers and pipefitters, riggers, sheet metal workers, steelworkers, truckers and teamsters, American Red Cross volunteers, and many others. Lower Manhattan, south of 14th Street, was off-limits, except for rescue and recovery workers. There were", "id": "8345871" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nalso about 400 working dogs, the largest deployment of dogs in the nation's history. New York City Office of Emergency Management was the agency responsible for coordination of the City's response to the attacks. Headed by then-Director Richard Sheirer, the agency was forced to vacate its headquarters, located in 7 World Trade Center, within hours of the attack. The building later collapsed. OEM reestablished operations temporarily at the police academy, where Mayor Giuliani gave many press conferences throughout the afternoon and evening of September 11. By", "id": "8345872" }, { "contents": "Salty and Roselle\n\n\nSalty and Roselle were two guide dogs who were with their owners in the World Trade Center during the September 11 attacks in New York City. They each successfully guided their owners out of the burning towers before they collapsed, feats which were later recognized when they were awarded the Dickin Medal by the British charity the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals. Roselle went on to be posthumously named American Hero Dog of the Year 2011 by American Humane, and has a book written about her. Salty (December 12, 1996 – March", "id": "14082890" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nJake (1995 – July 25, 2007) was an American black labrador who served as a search and rescue dog following the September 11 attacks and Hurricane Katrina. Jake served as a rescue dog from 1997 until his retirement because of cancer in 2006. Jake was adopted when he was 10 months old by his owner, Mary Flood. Jake had been found abandoned on the streets with several injuries, including a dislocated hip and a broken leg. Jake's final owner, Mary Flood, is a member of Utah Task Force", "id": "12469733" }, { "contents": "Aftermath of the September 11 attacks\n\n\nthe American Medical Association, \"...the number of blood donations in the weeks after the September 11, 2001, attacks was markedly greater than in the corresponding weeks of 2000 (2.5 times greater in the first week after the attacks; 1.3–1.4 times greater in the second to fourth weeks after the attack).\" At the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show that took place in New York in February 2002, a tribute was paid to the search and rescue dogs who not only assisted in locating survivors and bodies from the rubble,", "id": "7792842" }, { "contents": "James Zadroga\n\n\nJames Zadroga (February 8, 1971January 5, 2006) was a New York City Police Department (NYPD) officer who died of a respiratory disease that has been attributed to his participation in rescue and recovery operations in the rubble of the World Trade Center following the September 11 attacks. Zadroga was the first NYPD officer whose death was attributed to exposure to his contact with toxic chemicals at the attack site. Zadroga had joined the New York City Police Department in 1992 and attained the rank of Detective. He was a healthy non", "id": "8614630" }, { "contents": "Pawprints of Katrina\n\n\nbook begins on September 11, 2005, at a freeway off-ramp used as a boat launch, with New York City Parks Enforcement (Search & Rescue Team) Department's Captain Scott Shields, known for the efforts of his search-and-rescue dog, Bear, at the World Trade Center on 9/11. An excerpt from that chapter describes the moment: \"Before we set out on a boat to look for stranded pets, the captain asked us to take a moment to remember those lost on 9/11. There", "id": "10227638" }, { "contents": "Connecticut State Environmental Conservation Police\n\n\nState Police and became certified handlers in the areas of search and rescue and evidence detection. The officers and their partners went through four weeks of vigorous training before becoming certified. The Agency obtained three of the dogs from Connecticut Labrador Rescue Inc, in Haddam and Michael Case, a private breeder from Colebrook, Connecticut who donated the fourth K-9 to the Department. Since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the EnCon Police have been tasked with a number of responsibilities related to Homeland Security. As a result of these attacks", "id": "14319049" }, { "contents": "Jake (rescue dog)\n\n\nhe worked with, Jake was exposed to the physical hazards of Ground Zero, including sharp debris and suspected unhealthy air. Jake also served in his search and rescue team following Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Jake, along with his Utah Task Force, drove over 30 hours from Utah to Mississippi to help search for survivors and victims of following the hurricane's landfall. Jake was also deployed to the Gulf Coast in the aftermath of Hurricane Rita. In his later years, Jake helped to train younger prospective rescue dogs, as well", "id": "12469736" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nNYPD set up its incident command center at Church Street and Vesey Street, on the opposite side of the World Trade Center from where the FDNY was commanding its operations. NYPD helicopters were soon at the scene, reporting on the status of the burning buildings. When the buildings collapsed, 23 NYPD officers were killed, along with 37 Port Authority Police Department officers. The NYPD helped facilitate the evacuation of civilians out of Lower Manhattan, including approximately 5,000 civilians evacuated by the Harbor Unit to Staten Island and to New Jersey. In", "id": "8345865" }, { "contents": "Fire and Rescue Department of Malaysia\n\n\ndogs to operate in the Search and Rescue (SAR) operations and investigation. K9 Unit can be attached to the regular firefighting unit or JBPM Special Forces thus all dog handlers together with their dogs are trained for a variety of situations, including the urban and the jungle operations. A support team task to support JBPM Special Forces with water transportation during operations involving of lake, river and sea. The boat crews are trained in water survival and able to perform water rescue to JBPM personnel and civilians if things go south. Special", "id": "20633271" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nGregory Avenue, Weoley Castle, for 25 shillings. He was noted by his owner as having dual talents; for destruction of his owner's home and for ignoring every command given. He was transferred into war service, serving with Air Ministry dog-handler Archie Knight at the Civil Defence depot in Chelsea. He was known as Rescue Dog No. 2664/9288 Peter. Active from early 1945 until the end of the Second World War, Peter acted as a search and rescue dog in London. Knight wrote of the dog in", "id": "6093675" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\n. Corporal Wardle and Jet were the first handler and dog to be used in an official capacity in Civil Defence rescue duties. He was awarded the Dickin Medal on 12 January 1945 for saving the lives of over fifty people trapped in bombed buildings. The dedication read \"For being responsible for the rescue of persons trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with the Civil Defence Services of London.\" Following the war, he was returned to his owner in Liverpool. The Dickin Medal is often referred to as the animal metaphorical equivalent of", "id": "14817122" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nIMTs) also provided support beginning in the days after the attacks to help manage operations. A nearby Burger King restaurant was used as a center for police operations. Given that workers worked at the site, or \"The Pile\", for shifts as long as twelve hours, a specific culture developed at the site, leading to workers developing their own argot. \"The Pile\" was the term coined by the rescue workers to describe the 1.8 million tons of wreckage left from the collapse of the World Trade Center. They", "id": "8345876" }, { "contents": "William M. Feehan\n\n\ndeath in the line of duty during the collapse of the North Tower of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, at the age of 71. Along with FDNY Chief of department Peter Ganci, Commissioner Feehan was found by the FDNY's Search and Rescue K-9 \"Bear.\" Feehan was survived by his daughters, Elizabeth Feehan and Tara Davan, and sons, William Feehan and firefighter John Feehan, who had worked in Squad Company 252 and is currently Captain of Engine 249. He was also survived by six grandchildren", "id": "20321815" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nrefuge. Sam's team managed to force their way into the compound and he held off the rioters until reinforcements arrived. Sam retired from service two years later, at the age of 10. He died from natural causes soon afterwards. Sam posthumously received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 in recognition of his work in Bosnia and Herzegovina. He was the fifty ninth animal to receive the award, and was also the first army dog to receive the Dickin Medal since 1944. The", "id": "3758045" }, { "contents": "Niagara Parks Police Service\n\n\n, the Niagara Parks Police have established their first Canine Unit consisting of one handler and his dog \"Nia\" trained in search and rescue and explosives detection. In summer 2013, K-9 Nia retired due to a chronic illness which prevented her from continuing as an active police dog. In September 2013 new police K-9 Cinder began his training as Nia's replacement. The Niagara Parks Police are responsible for, but not limited to, the following: During peak tourist season the Parks Police employ approximately thirty students, most of whom are", "id": "6172110" }, { "contents": "Crumstone Irma\n\n\nCrumstone Irma, a.k.a. Irma, was a German Shepherd Dog who assisted in the rescue of 191 people trapped under blitzed buildings while serving with London's Civil Defence Services during the Second World War. During this period she worked with her handler and owner, Mrs Margaret Griffin, and another dog named Psyche. Noted for her ability to tell if buried victims were dead or alive, she was awarded the Dickin Medal in 1945, and is buried at the PDSA Animal Cemetery, Ilford. Irma was initially used as a messenger", "id": "14817125" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center Health Program\n\n\nThe WTC Health Program covers responders who worked or volunteered in the rescue, recovery, or clean up efforts at the World Trade Center site in New York, the Pentagon, or the plane crash site in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. It also provides benefits for people who lived, worked, went to school, attended daycare, or adult daycare in the New York City disaster area after September 11. Responders include members of the Fire Department of New York City who participated in the rescue and recovery effort at the World Trade Center sites", "id": "8808395" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nBecause of this, 343 firefighters died in the collapse of the towers. The command post located across West Street was taken out when the South Tower collapsed, making command and control even more difficult and disorganized. When the North Tower collapsed, falling debris killed Peter Ganci, the FDNY chief. Following the collapse of the World Trade Center, a command post was set up at a firehouse in Greenwich Village. The FDNY deployed 200 units (half of all units) to the site, with more than 400 firefighters on the", "id": "8345858" }, { "contents": "Jet of Iada\n\n\nJet of Iada a.k.a. Jet (21 July 1942 – 18 October 1949) was a German Shepherd Dog, who assisted in the rescue of 150 people trapped under blitzed buildings. He was a pedigree dog born in Liverpool, and served with the Civil Defence Services of London. He was awarded both the Dickin Medal and the RSPCA's Medallion of Valor for his rescue efforts. Jet was born in Liverpool in the Iada kennel of Mrs Babcock Cleaver in July 1942. He was a black German Shepherd Dog, and in the", "id": "14817120" }, { "contents": "Dogs with Jobs\n\n\nDogs with Jobs is a Canadian documentary television series about working dogs and show dogs. Each half-hour episode consists of two to three segments on individual dogs from around the world. The family-friendly series has featured service dogs, search and rescue dogs, police dogs, herding dogs, and others. Segments show footage of dogs on the job, and also include stories of their rescue, training, and relationships with their owners and handlers. The idea for the series came from Canadian writer Merrily Weisbord and her daughter", "id": "20398279" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nThe use of dogs in search and rescue (SAR) is a valuable component in wilderness tracking, natural disasters, mass casualty events, and in locating missing people. Dedicated handlers and well-trained dogs are required for the use of dogs to be effective in search efforts. Search and rescue dogs are typically worked, by a small team on foot. Search and rescue dogs detect human scent. Although the exact processes are still researched, it may include skin rafts (scent-carrying skin cells that drop off living humans", "id": "15944256" }, { "contents": "World Trade Center station (PATH)\n\n\nits pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act, as a condition for getting", "id": "12359425" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, shortly before United Airlines Flight 175 hit the South Tower, the FDNY chief had arrived and took over command of the response operations. Due to falling debris and safety concerns, he moved the incident command center to a spot located across West Street, but numerous fire chiefs remained in the lobby which continued to serve as an operations post where alarms, elevators, communications systems, and other equipment were operated. The initial response by the FDNY was on rescue and evacuation of building occupants, which involved sending firefighters up to assist", "id": "8345854" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Florida Task Force 1\n\n\nspecialists are brought in as needed. In addition, FL-TF1 has nine FEMA certified canine teams, each composed of a handler and a search dog. In the early 1980s two fire departments, Miami-Dade Fire Rescue and the Fairfax County Fire and Rescue Department out of Fairfax County, Virginia worked together under an agreement with the Office of Foreign Disaster Assistance to provide international search and rescue assistance in times of disaster. Starting in 1991, FEMA incorporated a USAR team into its federal response plan. These 20+ teams", "id": "640142" }, { "contents": "Rescue robot\n\n\nThus, the European Commission's Directorate-General for Enterprise and Industry decided to fund ICARUS, a Research project (global budget: 17.5M€) which aims to develop robotic tools which can assist “human” crisis intervention teams. Rescue robots were used in the search for victims and survivors after the September 11 attacks in New York. During September 11 disasters rescue robots were first really tested. They were sent into the rubble to look for survivors and bodies. The robots had trouble working in the rubble of the World Trade Center", "id": "3098116" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nThe local, state, federal and global reaction to the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center was unprecedented. The equally unsurpassed events of that day elicited the largest response of local emergency and rescue personnel to assist in the evacuation of the two towers and also contributed to the largest loss of the same personnel when the towers collapsed. After the attacks, the media termed the World Trade Center site \"Ground Zero\", while rescue personnel referred to it as \"the Pile\". In the ensuing recovery and cleanup efforts", "id": "8345850" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nis a specialist in one of four areas: The search and rescue personnel are organized into four Rescue Squads, each composed of an Officer and five Rescue Specialists, and are capable of working 12-hour alternating shifts. The medical personnel include two task force physicians and four Medical Specialists. The canine rescuers are a critical element of each US&R Task Force as their keen sense of smell allows them to locate victims that might go undiscovered. The majority of the dog handlers on the Task Forces are civilian volunteers. The dogs are usually considered", "id": "21101736" }, { "contents": "City University of New York Public Safety Department\n\n\n. CUNY has not yet obtained an Operating Certificate to be recognized by NYSDOH, NYCREMSCO & FDNY to operate as an EMS provider. Currently there is only one member of the unit. Over the years, there have been five German shepherds in the CUNY Canine unit. The K-9 officers go through 17 weeks of training provided by the Yonkers Police Department and they receive Certification from the New York State Department of Criminal Justice Services. After the World Trade Center attacks on 9/11, the CUNY K-9 Unit dispatched four dogs to assist during", "id": "13853184" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nfor this job are St. Bernards, German Shepherd Dogs, and Labrador Retrievers. Missing animal search (MAS) dogs use tracking, trailing and air scenting techniques in order to locate missing, trapped or injured animals and can be trained to locate deceased animals or remains. The Missing Animal Search Dogs Association based in Herefordshire in the UK is carrying out research in this area of search and rescue. Training is a rigorous, time-consuming and comprehensive process for both the dog and the handler. For the dog, training is", "id": "15944270" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nchosen to train in this field. Each team has its own primary area of responsibility but frequently deploy outside these areas in support of other teams. Cave rescue had its own umbrella organisation, the British Cave Rescue Council, but some teams operate as both cave rescue teams and mountain rescue teams. There are also regional organisations dedicated to the training of search dogs and their handlers. England has two associations, the Search and Rescue Dog Association England SARDA(E) and the Lake District Mountain Rescue Search Dog Association (LDMRSD). Wales", "id": "18467192" }, { "contents": "Chambers Street–World Trade Center/Park Place/Cortlandt Street station\n\n\nDecember 19, 2016. The newly reopened passageway retained its pre-9/11 design, save for a door on display that has the words \"MATF 1 / 9 13\" spray-painted on it (a message from Urban Search and Rescue Massachusetts Task Force 1 of Beverly, Massachusetts, who searched the World Trade Center site on September 13, 2001). There is a plaque above the spray-painting, explaining the message on the door. PATH was required to preserve the passageway's original design as per Section 106 of the", "id": "17711006" }, { "contents": "Dustin J. Lee\n\n\nMeridian, Mississippi. From around five years old, Lee worked with rescue dogs by hiding in woods and allowing them to find him. According to his father, he was so moved by the September 11 attacks that he signed up for the military before graduating high school. Lee grew up in Quitman, Mississippi and graduated from Quitman High School in 2004. Lee finished first in his training class as a dog handler in 2005. He was noted by the kennel master, William W. Reynolds, to be \"uncanny as a", "id": "17545654" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nout of the rubble. The final survivor, Port Authority secretary Genelle Guzman-McMillan, was rescued 27 hours after the collapse of the North Tower. Some firefighters and civilians who survived made cell phone calls from voids beneath the rubble, though the amount of debris made it difficult for rescue workers to get to them. By Wednesday night, 82 deaths had been confirmed by officials in New York City. Rescue efforts were paused numerous times in the days after the attack, due to concerns that nearby buildings, including One Liberty", "id": "8345870" }, { "contents": "Ilford Animal Cemetery\n\n\nbeen tasked with responding to the many letters received by the ship's heroic cat, Simon, who is buried at Ilford. The burials are a mixture of family pets and military animals, including thirteen recipients of the Dickin Medal for bravery (a fifth of all Dickin Medal recipients are buried at Ilford). The first Dickin Medal recipient to be buried at Ilford was Rip, a Second World War search and rescue dog. Information boards recounting the stories of several of the animals were constructed during the recent restoration. The cemetery", "id": "15333774" }, { "contents": "German Shepherd\n\n\nAs part of the Herding Group, German Shepherds are working dogs developed originally for herding sheep. Since that time however, because of their strength, intelligence, trainability, and obedience, German Shepherds around the world are often the preferred breed for many types of work, including disability assistance, search-and-rescue, police and military roles, and acting. The German Shepherd is the second-most registered breed by the American Kennel Club and seventh-most registered breed by The Kennel Club in the United Kingdom. German", "id": "1990214" }, { "contents": "Priya Ravichandran\n\n\nvictims.. She was admitted at the Appollo Hospitals and Chief Minister J.Jayalalitha visited her at the hospital and assured the support of the Government in her speedy recovery to her kith and kin . In recognition of her brave deed she was awarded the Anna Medal for Bravery - the first of its kind to a Government employee . She was also awarded the President Medal for gallantry .She is the first woman officer in the Department to be awarded with the President medal. She also became the first Officer to be promoted and posted as Deputy Director", "id": "10111038" }, { "contents": "U.S. government response to the September 11 attacks\n\n\nof the National September 11 Memorial & Museum. Within hours of the attacks in New York, a massive search and rescue (SAR) operation was launched, which included over 350 search and rescue dogs. Initially, only a handful of wounded people were found at the site, and in the weeks that followed it became evident that there weren't any survivors to be found. Only twenty survivors were found alive in the rubble. Rescue and recovery efforts took months to complete. It took several weeks to put out the fires", "id": "8345829" }, { "contents": "Kuga (dog)\n\n\nKuga was posthumously awarded the 71st Dickin Medal for bravery by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals (PDSA). The medal was received on Kuga’s behalf by a Victoria Cross recipient, Mark Donaldson VC, who was also a Special forces dog handler, along with another military dog, Odin. A spokesperson for the PDSA said, \"The reason he got the Dickin Medal was he just was so courageous. He saved the lives, without doubt I think, of that patrol.” Donaldson said, \"I personally", "id": "11401200" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nMilitary Police Company, and 69th Infantry Regiment based in Manhattan were the first military force to secure Ground Zero on September 11th. The 69th Infantry's armory on Lexington Avenue became the Family Information Center to assist persons in locating missing family members. The National Guard supplemented the NYPD and FDNY, with 2,250 guard members on the scene by the next morning. Eventually thousands of New York Army and Air National Guardsmen participated in the rescue/recovery efforts. They conducted site security at the WTC, and at other locations. They provided", "id": "8345886" }, { "contents": "Mountain rescue in England and Wales\n\n\nalso has two associations the Search and Rescue Dog Association Wales (SARDA Wales) responding to incidents in North Wales and the Search and Rescue Dog Association South Wales (SARDA South Wales). Handlers must be full team members of a mountain rescue team and, once graded, will operate alongside that team, but can also be deployed in support of other teams. The co-ordinating body for Mountain & Mine Search and Rescue Teams in the Lake District is the The co-ordinating body for South Wales is covered by the", "id": "18467193" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nand military police, they greatly aided in the clean-up effort. F-16s from the 174th Fighter Wing also ramped up their flying sorties and patrolled the skies. The New Jersey National Guard assisted the New York National Guard's efforts following the attacks. U.S. Marines were also present to assist in the rescue efforts. No official numbers of men who helped out was released but there was evidence that they were there. Films such as 2006 docudrama \"World Trade Center\" talked of two Marines who rescued two trapped police officers in", "id": "8345888" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, to oversee the structural engineering operations at the site. To make the effort more manageable, the World Trade Center site was divided into four quadrants or zones. Each zone was assigned a lead contractor, and a team of three structural engineers, subcontractors, and rescue workers. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the United States Army Corps of Engineers, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), and the New York City Office of Emergency Management (OEM) provided support. Forestry incident management teams (", "id": "8345875" }, { "contents": "FEMA Urban Search and Rescue Task Force\n\n\nreach of the handler, it is critical to minimize the possibility of the dog becoming trapped in a confined space or choking from an entangled collar. Because of the distinct possibility of injury from broken glass and metal, the medical unit maintains supplies for the canine rescuers. After first passing an evaluation of basic obedience, alert, directional control, agility and search skills currently known as an FSA (Foundational Skills Assessment), all canine/handler teams must pass an advanced certification known as a Certification Evaluation (or CE).", "id": "21101739" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\navoided the use of \"ground zero\", which describes the epicenter of a bomb explosion. Numerous volunteers organized to form \"bucket brigades\", which passed 5-gallon buckets full of debris down a line to investigators, who sifted through the debris in search of evidence and human remains. Ironworkers helped cut up steel beams into more manageable sizes for removal. Much of the debris was hauled off to the Fresh Kills Landfill on Staten Island where it was further searched and sorted. Some of the steel was reused for memorials. New", "id": "8345877" }, { "contents": "Norfolk Fire and Rescue Service\n\n\nin the number of fire's they attend, however an increasing response to Road Traffic Collisions (RTC) on Norfolk's roads. Pods: CBRN Response: Incident Response Unit (IRU): H9 Urban Search & Rescue Unit (USAR): Norfolk also hosts one of the UK's Urban Search and Rescue teams, these were originally set up as a response to the 9/11 tragedy in New York. The Norfolk team comprises 15 wholetime USAR technicians and 16 retained technicians along with a search dog. The team is based in", "id": "6559273" }, { "contents": "Shiloh Shepherd dog\n\n\nShilohs have been trained as search and rescue dogs. In March 2007, a Shiloh named Gandalf received national media attention after finding a Boy Scout lost in the mountains of North Carolina. Shilohs' gentleness and calm temperament allow them to be a part of therapy work. Their intelligence and willingness to please make them highly suitable for work as assistance dogs. They respond quickly to training and retain the capacity to make independent decisions when situations change. They are frequent recipients of the AKCs \"Canine Good Citizen\" Award and have been", "id": "3146056" }, { "contents": "International Rescue Dog Organisation\n\n\nOCHA, the Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs. IRO is organising trainings and competitions where the rescue dog teams practice the search of mission persons. At the World Championships of rescue dogs every year the best teams are identified: in 2013 for the 19th time. Every two years experts meet at a rescue dog symposium to discuss current affairs and frame conditions of the search and rescue work. Since 2010 IRO calls for participation among rescue dog organisations to participate in form of presentations in the public in the Int. Day of", "id": "12797617" }, { "contents": "Quinson Valentino\n\n\nPickering Markets on September 30-October 1. It was around this time that Barry returned to the States to join Daryk St. Holmes in AWA Brew City Wrestling as one-half of The Aristocrats (replacing Danny Scott). The team feuded with The Soul Shooters (\"Poison\" Appollo Starr and Drew \"The Don\" Johnson) over the BCW Tag Team Championship and eventually lost the belts to them in Waukesha, Wisconsin the following year. On December 9, 2006, he beat Reggie Marley at Mecca Pro Wrestling's \"Holiday", "id": "20492783" }, { "contents": "Working dog\n\n\nsimilar desirable characteristics, such as loyalty and good temperament, were bred. As a result, many working breeds are sought after as family pets. For search and rescue work, typical breeds seen in the field include Labrador Retrievers, Border Collies, German Shepherd Dogs and certain members of the hound group. These dogs should have a good prey drive, desire to please the handler, ability to work on and off lead, and be sociable in public settings. Working dogs make excellent pets as long as potential owners realize that", "id": "16947830" }, { "contents": "Urban Search and Rescue Pennsylvania Task Force 1\n\n\n, as well as the in-state US&R response system. PA-TF-1 has been deployed to numerous incidents of national significance. The Task Force's first federal deployment was to North Carolina in 1999 for Hurricane Floyd. During this deployment, PA-TF1 gained distinction for several swift water rescues. PA-TF1 was deployed to the 2001 World Trade Center Attacks, the 2005 Hurricane Katrina/Rita event, and the 2008 Hurricane Ike/Gustav storm. PA-TF1 has also been deployed for National Special Security Events.", "id": "750535" }, { "contents": "Sasha (dog)\n\n\nSasha DM (2004–2008) was a Labrador Retriever who served as a bomb detection dog for the British Army whilst stationed in Afghanistan. Sasha and her handler, Lance Corporal Kenneth Rowe, were killed in July 2008. Sasha was awarded the Dickin Medal, also known as the animals' Victoria Cross, in 2014. Sasha was originally assigned as a bomb detection search dog to Marianne Hay, who gave Sasha up as she felt that they couldn't work in the field together as they had become too close. Sasha was assigned", "id": "18646286" }, { "contents": "Sam (army dog)\n\n\nSam (died 2000) was an army dog who served with the Royal Army Veterinary Corps Dog Unit. While serving in Bosnia and Herzegovina in the 1990s, Sam helped to apprehend an armed man and also to hold back an armed mob besieging a compound where Serbs were taking refuge. He received the Dickin Medal, the animals' equivalent of the Victoria Cross, in 2003 for these acts of bravery. Sam was a German Shepherd that served with the Dog Unit of the Royal Army Veterinary Corps. Sam and his handler,", "id": "3758043" }, { "contents": "Freddie Mwila\n\n\nchanged its name to the Atlanta Appollos after a change of ownership. Apart from playing in Atlanta, he was supposed to go to England for a full-time coaching course but he achieved neither ambition. He returned home with Kapengwe in August who was also frustrated. The outspoken Mwila accused the FAZ of standing in his way by not giving him an international clearance to rejoin Chiefs. During their time in Atlanta, neither of them played a single match but they spent their time coaching young American footballers in colleges. Mwila stated", "id": "19455812" }, { "contents": "Search and rescue dog\n\n\nanimal vs human scent discrimination'. Dr. Komar worked with cadaver dog teams from the RCMP Civilian Search Dog Program now the Canadian Search Dog Association and the Search and Rescue Dog Association of Alberta. This study showed the accuracy rates of cadaver dogs in moderate to adverse winter weather conditions, and also the dogs' capabilities to discriminate between animal and human remains. It indicated that an accuracy rate near 100% can be achieved through careful and directed training. Her work has been published in the Journal of Forensic Anthropology. Of key", "id": "15944268" }, { "contents": "St. Bernard (dog)\n\n\nused for breeding while they were performing rescues. In an attempt to preserve the breed, the remaining St. Bernards were crossed with Newfoundlands brought from the Colony of Newfoundland in the 1850s, and so lost much of their use as rescue dogs in the snowy climate of the alps because the long fur they inherited would freeze and weigh them down. The dogs never received any special training from the monks. Instead, younger dogs would learn how to perform search and rescue operations from older dogs. The Swiss St. Bernard Club was founded", "id": "8124102" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\n, personnel related to metalwork and construction professions would descend on the site to offer their services and remained until the site was cleared in May 2002. In the years since, investigations and studies have examined effects upon those who participated, noting a variety of afflictions attributed to the debris and stress. After American Airlines Flight 11 crashed into the North Tower (1 WTC) of the World Trade Center, a standard announcement was given to tenants in the South Tower (2 WTC) to stay put and that the building was secure", "id": "8345851" }, { "contents": "National September 11 Memorial & Museum\n\n\nmemorial and museum at the World Trade Center site. A memorial was planned in the immediate aftermath of the attacks and destruction of the World Trade Center for the victims and those involved in rescue and recovery operations. The winner of the World Trade Center Site Memorial Competition was Israeli-American architect Michael Arad of Handel Architects, a New York- and San Francisco-based firm. Arad worked with landscape-architecture firm Peter Walker and Partners on the design, creating a forest of swamp white oak trees with two square reflecting pools in", "id": "9525029" }, { "contents": "Trakr\n\n\nTrakr (c.1994 - April 2009) was a German Shepherd police dog who along with his handler, Canadian police officer James Symington, discovered the last survivor of the September 11 attacks at the World Trade Center in New York City in 2001. For his accomplishments, Trakr was named one of history’s most heroic animals by \"Time\" magazine. In 2008 Symington won an essay contest sponsored by BioArts International to find the world's most \"cloneworthy dog\", as a result of which Trakr was cloned, producing five puppies", "id": "8624062" }, { "contents": "Korean Jindo\n\n\n, Park Nam-sun (박남순), an expert search dog handler in South Korea, testified that Jindo dogs are not fit as rescue dogs and search dogs. It is because Jindo dogs' hunting instincts are too strong (they can forget their mission because of their hunting instincts), and they usually give their loyalty only to the first owner, while handlers of search dogs and rescue dogs can frequently change. In 2010, Son Min-suk (손민석), a member of Korean Security Forum, wrote that", "id": "8072086" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nbuilding. Problems with radio communication caused commanders to lose contact with many of the firefighters who went into the buildings. The repeater system in the World Trade Center, which was required for portable radio signals to transmit reliably, was malfunctioning after the impact of the planes. As a result, firefighters were unable to report to commanders on their progress, and were unable to hear evacuation orders. Also, many off-duty firefighters arrived to help, without their radios. FDNY commanders lacked communication with the NYPD, who had helicopters", "id": "8345856" }, { "contents": "AB 1634\n\n\nwas generally supported by animal shelter directors and workers, animal rights groups, animal rescue groups, Societies for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, humane societies, and the Los Angeles city government. The bill received an enormous amount of media attention. The bill was generally opposed by pet owners, breed clubs, breeders of working dogs, search-and-rescue dog associations, K9 law enforcement associations, organizations that provide guide dogs for the blind and service dogs for the disabled, California's agriculture industry, animal rescue groups", "id": "20734587" }, { "contents": "Rescue and recovery effort after the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center\n\n\nYork City firefighters donated a cross made of steel from the World Trade Center to the Shanksville Volunteer Fire Company in Shanksville, Pennsylvania. The beam, mounted atop a platform shaped like the Pentagon, was erected outside the Shanksville's firehouse near the crash site of United Airlines Flight 93. Twenty-four tons of the steel used in construction of USS \"New York\" (LPD-21) came from the small amount of rubble from the World Trade Center preserved for posterity. Hazards at the World Trade Center site included a diesel fuel", "id": "8345878" }, { "contents": "Sadie (dog)\n\n\nYardley, were deployed to search for explosive devices outside the United Nations headquarters in Kabul following a suicide attack. Sadie picked up the scent of a second device through a thick concrete wall, giving disposal experts the opportunity to defuse the bomb which was a pressure cooker bomb -- a pressure cooker filled with TNT. The bomb had been covered with sandbags, in order to kill and injure rescue workers following the suicide attack. For her actions, Sadie was awarded the Dickin Medal. Awarded by the People's Dispensary for Sick Animals", "id": "10285152" }, { "contents": "West Midlands Police\n\n\ndogs in the West Midlands Police Dog Section are products of an in-house breeding program which the force has been running at its Balsall Common training centre since 1994. Specialist search dogs including Springer Spaniels and Labradors are also used by the Dogs Unit to locate drugs or firearms and explosives. Dogs are continually recruited from rescue centres and from members of the public. All specialist dogs are handled by officers who already have a general purpose police dog, giving the handler responsibility in both training and operational deployment. There are currently 69", "id": "20163058" }, { "contents": "Paul Rieckhoff\n\n\nStreet on September 7, 2001, with plans to travel and complete additional military schooling. On the morning of September 11, Rieckhoff was at his apartment in Manhattan when the first plane hit the World Trade Center. He participated in the rescue efforts at ground zero. His unit was formally activated for rescue and security operations later that evening. Rieckhoff recounted his 9/11 experiences for the 9/11 Tribute Center for a project called \"Stories of 9/11 told by those who were there\" In 2002, Rieckhoff volunteered for the invasion of Iraq", "id": "6584696" }, { "contents": "Cornwall Search & Rescue Team\n\n\nof severe weather and during major incidents, having played a key role in the Boscastle flood and during heavy snowfall across the higher parts of Cornwall, e.g. in the winter of 2009/10. This is in addition to the more specialist roles which the team also has including the provision of casualty carers and technical specialists. Led by a Team Leader and one deputy, the team currently has around 45 surface search and rescue team members, based throughout Cornwall and one Search and Rescue Dog Association dog handler. Equipment is carried in three team", "id": "19252875" }, { "contents": "Icelandic Association for Search and Rescue\n\n\nrecent years, specialization within rescue teams has increased, making the work more purposeful: land groups, sea groups, diving groups, advance groups, high-angle rescue groups, search dog groups, etc. Also working within the association is a rescue team for international projects, co-operating with rescue teams in other countries, for example, when major earthquakes occur, as in Turkey in 1999, Algeria in 2003, Morocco in 2004, and Haiti in 2010. ICE-SAR operates an international urban rescue unit,", "id": "7426408" }, { "contents": "Animal rescue group\n\n\n. In the United Kingdom, both shelter and rescue organisations are described using the blanket term \"rescue\", whether they have their own premises, buy in accommodation from commercial kennels, or operate a network of foster homes, where volunteers keep the animals in their homes until adoption. Kennels that have a council contract to take in stray dogs are usually referred to as dog pounds. Some dog pounds also carry out rescue and rehoming work and are effectively rescue groups that operate a pound service. Some rescue groups work with pounds", "id": "3526009" }, { "contents": "Health effects arising from the September 11 attacks\n\n\nbillion until 2015 to monitor and treat injuries stemming from exposure to toxic dust and debris at World Trade Center site. There are nearly 60,000 people enrolled in health-monitoring and treatment programs related to the 9/11 attack. The bill is formally known as the James Zadroga 9/11 Health and Compensation Act, named after a New York police detective who took part in the rescue efforts at ground zero and later developed breathing complications. On October 28, 2007, Jim Riches reported that the City of New York and litigating first responders have shown", "id": "12662036" }, { "contents": "McNab dog\n\n\ndog competitions, and flyball. They are also exceptional competitors in barn hunt and nose work. Many ranchers are competing with McNabs in the relatively new sport of Ranch Dog Herding where dog and handler on horseback work as a team herding three head of cattle through five obstacles and then into a stock trailer. The McNabs reputation as an indefatigable \"all-weather\" dog is also opening up a new avenue of work for the dog: Search and Rescue. Currently McNabs are working as evidence search dogs, cadaver dogs, archaeology", "id": "2074501" }, { "contents": "Peter (dog)\n\n\nI hated to work him like this – but I also hated to refuse the rescue parties who were asking for him.\" Peter's rescue efforts were not limited to saving people; on one occasion he indicated a trapped victim which turned out to be a grey parrot. On another occasion he saved six people in a single attack. In 1946, Peter and his handler were present at the Civil Defence Stand–Down parade in Hyde Park, London. It was there that he was presented to King and Queen, and", "id": "6093677" }, { "contents": "Giovanni Battista Viola\n\n\nGiovanni Battista Viola (June 16, 1576 – August 10, 1622) was an Italian painter of the early Baroque period in Rome. Giovanni was born in Bologna. His skills were initially noticed by Annibale Carracci. He collaborated with Domenichino in the \"Room of Appollo\" in Villa Aldobrandini in Frascati (1616–18), where Viola painted the landscapes and Domenichino, the figures. He appears to have worked for the Giustiniani in Bassano di Sutri. In 1612, he was sharing a house with Francesco Albani. In 1612,", "id": "13001088" } ]