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  H.M.S. Hood Association-Battle Cruiser Hood: Crew Information - Autobiography of Ken "Dixie" Dean
Kenneth Arthur Dean was born on 29th February 1920 at Crowthorne in Berkshire and was educated at Crowthorne Elementary school.
Dixie also had this to say about his time in Hood: "I was always keen on sports and being a big ship, Hood had her fair share of famous faces from the sporting world of the Navy.
Dixie was a member of the H.M.S. Hood Association from its early days and can be seen in all the photos from the 1970s, 80s and 90s.
www.hmshood.com /crew/biography/dixiedean_bio.htm   (1433 words)

  
  Dixie Dean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
William Ralph Dean (January 22, 1907-March 1, 1980), popularly known as Dixie Dean, was an English football player, one of the most prolific centre forwards in English football history, who is best known for his legendary exploits at Everton.
His nickname "Dixie" is said to have been given to him by fans due to his dark complexion and curly fl hair, which was, in their perception, similar to that of African-Americans in the Southern United States.
In 2001, a statue of Dean was erected outside the Park End of the stadium carrying the inscription, "Footballer, Gentleman, Evertonian." In 2002 Dean became an Inaugural Inductee to the English Football Hall of Fame.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Dixie_Dean   (681 words)

  
 William Dean - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
See Dixie Dean for the footballer in the United Kingdom whose real name was William Dean.
He was the second son of Henry Dean, manager of the Hawes Soap Factory in New Cross, London.
Dean was ill during his final years as Chief Locomotive Engineer, and he increasingly allowed Churchward to take on the day-to-day responsibilities.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/William_Dean   (326 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Cases are cold, but not forgotten
Dixie Dean was found with her hands tied behind her back, her pants pulled down and her head hidden under a rug - dead from a gunshot wound in her Vegas Heights trailer.
Dean's neighbor discovered her and ran half a mile to the nearest phone to call police, who arrived at the scene and launched an investigation.
Dean was sexually assaulted before she died and any biological evidence the investigators can retrieve might lead back to someone who was involved with the death, he says.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/sun/2006/jun/08/566640442.html   (743 words)

  
 Anova Books - DIXIE DEAN   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dixie Dean was the original Roy of the Rovers, the archetypal comic strip hero and an icon beyond the boundaries of his sport.In his prime, Dixie became synonymous with goalscoring, at which he was supreme master.
Amassing 18 goals in 16 England appearances and an astonishing 43 at club and representative level, Deanªs reputation as a football legend was assured.Yet dean had to defy medical opinion and serious injury as a result of a horrific road accident to become a football folk hero.
Deanªs compelling memories and tales of his life and career are all enveloped in his wry humour and candour.A unique hero of yesteryear whose talent is treasured by football fans young and old, Dixie Dean gives a fascinating insight into the man and his legend.
www.batsford.com /book/1861054084   (221 words)

  
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Dixie Dean was a legend in his own lifetime, his footballing skills were admired by all who saw him, and his record of 60 goals in a league season has never been matched since.
Attacking memorials whether the Dixie Dean memorial or the Hillsborough memorial is a disgrace.
It's doubtful that this Dixie Dean memorial attack was a lone nut attacking the statue.
www.kirkbytimes.co.uk /news_items/dixie_statue_vandalised.html   (431 words)

  
 The Memphis Flyer :: the mid-south's news weekly: Cover Stories: Cover Stories: Dean Does Dixie
By the time Dean gets through with his brief prepared remarks, there is a buzz in the room, the hum of true believers, and Dean's feeling it too.
Dean keeps his smile, which contracts a bit as if to say, Surely this is a friendly question; the man has paid his way in, after all.
It had come after erstwhile frontrunner Dean's disappointing third-place finish in the Iowa caucuses in January 2004, and, both symbolically and literally, the Scream had instantly been regarded as the beginning of the end for his once high-flying campaign for the presidency.
www.memphisflyer.com /memphis/PrintFriendly?oid=oid:6375   (2507 words)

  
 ToffeeWeb - History - Dixie Dean Index
Dean scored an incredible 3.40% of all the Division one goals scored in the 1927-28 season compared with Thierry Henri, who scored 2.40% of the 2001-02 Premiership goals.
Dean, if he had been born in another generation would have been able to outscore any subsequent striker of the era by quite a considerable margin.
We know that Dean trained hard and was very enthusiastic about the game so we can be fairly sure that he would have been able to maintain today’s level of fitness.
www.toffeeweb.com /history/trivia/dean_index.asp   (561 words)

  
 Roy of the Rovers.com - The Official Roy of the Rovers Website   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Although Dean was virtually unbeatable in the air — many say he was the best ever -- he also knew how to shoot: he scored 40 of the league goals with his feet, so he "only" scored 20 with headers.
Dixie's overall record for Everton is fantastic, that 60-goal season the peak of a 13-year spell at the club following his signing from Tranmere Rovers in March 1925.
Thirdly, Dixie Dean's attitude was very good, he brimmed with confidence, never moaned to the refs, and his jokes helped raise the spirit in the team.
www.royoftherovers.com /halloffame/dean.htm   (1012 words)

  
 goodison park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dixie Dean led Everton to the title in 1927-28 almost single-handedly, scoring an amazing 60 goals in that season, a record that still stands today and which may never be equaled.
Dixie needed to score a hattrick in the last game of the season against Arsenal to break the 59 goal record set by George Camsell the previous year for Second Division Middlesbrough.
Everton's and Dean's fantastic season was followed by an incomprehensible collapse and, for the first time in their history, Everton were relegated to the Second Division in 1929-30.
groups.msn.com /goodisonpark/19191939thedeanyears.msnw   (2047 words)

  
 bluekipper.com - Dixie Dean - Legend
Dixie’s father was a train driver his mother a housemaid both lived to reach ninety, quite an age at the time, I think their sons exploits spurned them on.
Dixie from the restart ran towards the Arsenal goal and struck a blow to the insolent bullish Arsenal, a thunderous twenty yarder was unleashed and the 58th goal of this fantastic season was registered,it was also Everton’s 100th of this tile winning campaign.
Dixie was left in the reserves much to the dismay of his adoring subjects and there was uproar when he was sold to Notts County for £3000, ironically 13 years after he signed for the same fee.
www.bluekipper.com /dixie/legend.htm   (5953 words)

  
 Creative Loafing - Creative Loafing Atlanta: Archives: Vibes: Can Dean do dixie?   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Dean rode opposition to the president's war to the top of New Hampshire primary polls where he remains tied with front-running Massachusetts U.S. Sen. John Kerry.
The problem for Dean is that the very stand that brought him to prominence nationally may torpedo him in the South, where you can't swing a dead cat without hitting a military base.
Dean takes a similar tack on foreign policy and makes a common sense appeal that asks if America is truly a safer place if it uses its power for unending belligerence around the world.
atlanta.creativeloafing.com /2003-05-21/feature.html   (3311 words)

  
 ToffeeWeb's Everton Hall of Fame: Dean, William Ralph ("Dixie")
Dean's overall record for Everton is phenomenal, that 60-goal season the peak of a 13-year spell at the club following his signing from Tranmere Rovers in March 1925, which saw him score 349 goals in 399 League games.
Dean was again rampant, notching 45 goals in his last truly prolific season.
If William Dean was ever asked where he would like to be when he died, likely as not he would have said "Goodison Park"; and so it was that in 1980, at a Derby match, he passed away.
www.toffeeweb.com /history/legends/Dean.asp   (655 words)

  
 Temps Réels > After Dean : Forget Dixie and Kerry
The Dean campaign is not running any campaign advertising in these states, and the local Dean organizations are not receiving additional resources for their efforts to get out the vote.
The Dean Campaign for America crashed at the polls in Iowa and New Hampshire and in process burned through some 32 million $ of the 41 million $ in on-line donations that Dean had raised since last summer.
Dean was shot down by a media campaign that successfully "reframed" our progressive centrist from Vermont as this years’ crazy "angry man," but the Dean campaign’s is not the only casualty.
www.temps-reels.net /article1500.html   (909 words)

  
 goodison park   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Today (Monday 5th May) marks the 75th anniversary of when Dixie Dean scored one of 37 career hattricks to surpass Middlesbrough's George Camsell's record of 59 set the year before in Division Two, and Sharp is perfectly placed to provide an insight as to what the legend still means to the club.
Ask any Evertonian worth his salt who 'Dixie' Dean was and you will get a host of proud definitions outlining his illustrious career with the Goodison Park club.
On the 75th anniversary of the seemingly unsurpassable feat in which he scored 60 league goals in one season, Barbara Dean finally dispelled the myth surrounding the origins of one of the most famous nicknames in football.
groups.msn.com /goodisonpark/dean2.msnw   (590 words)

  
 Rhino's Blog
The latest scrap has been over Dean's comments about his desire to be the candidate of choice for the pick-up driving, confederate flag waving, Southern good ol' boyz.
Now having lived in the woods of Dixie for 13 years, The Rhino is no fan of the confederate flag or what it stands for, so at first glance I thought he'd made a serious blunder.
Dean's error was to evoke the divisive Confederate symbol, hated by fl Americans as standing for slavery and still upheld by many Southern conservatives as representing their "heritage".
radio.weblogs.com /0103207/2003/11/10.html   (785 words)

  
 Jackson Free Press | Dean Does Dixie
They point to Dean's quip during the Democratic presidential primary that he wanted "to be the candidate for guys with Confederate flags on their pickup trucks” as proof that Dean often uses hurtful stereotypes.
There, Dean received another ovation from the crowd when he said, “White folks in the South who drive pickup trucks with Confederate flag decals on the back ought to be voting with us, and not [Republicans], because their kids don't have health insurance, either, and their kids need better schools, too.”
Though Dean spoke of Evers and his family with respect, Evers afforded less credibility to Dean, saying he was appointed head of the DNC because other candidates dropped out.
www.jacksonfreepress.com /print.php?id=5337_0_27_0   (1709 words)

  
 Dean Gets Gore's Vote - CBS News
Gore said Dean "really is the only candidate who has been able to inspire at the grassroots level all over the country." He said the former Vermont governor also was the only Democratic candidate who made the correct judgment about the Iraq war.
Dean said he it was an honor and a privilege to receive Gore's endorsement.
Gore and Dean appeared in Harlem before flying to Cedar Rapids, Iowa, where Dean is locked in a tight race with Rep. Richard Gephardt in the Jan. 19 Democratic caucuses.
www.cbsnews.com /stories/2003/12/08/politics/main587468.shtml   (1135 words)

  
 Buy Dean Dimebag Dixie Rebel Electric Guitar with Case at Musician's Friend
Dean delivers another design by the cowboy from hell.
The Dixie Rebel guitar features an ML shape with sharp corners to enhance the rebel flag design.
Star inlays on the rosewood fretboard are highlighted by a" REBEL" inlay at the 12th fret.
www.musiciansfriend.com /product/Dean-Dimebag-Dixie-Rebel-Electric-Guitar-with-Case?sku=512928   (636 words)

  
 The legend of Dixie Dean and Everton - Sportingo
Dixie was a goalscoring genius, less famed for dribbling finesse than for raw courage, skill in the air (half his phenomenal haul of goals were from headers) and instinctive positioning.
Dixie soared above the Arsenal defence, and when he came down, the ball was in the net and football history had been made.
Dixie Dean scored almost 500 goals in his career, including 37 hat-tricks, before retiring to run a pub in Chester.
www.sportingo.com /football/the-legend-of-dixie-dean-and-everton/1001,1617   (884 words)

  
 MP3.com Search Results for: [ dixie ]
The Dixie Chicks rose from relative obscurity in 1998 to become one of the most popular acts in contemporary country music.
Hayseed Dixie is a novelty band that issued a tribute album to heavy metal legends AC/DC in 2001 (completely reworking the Australian band's classics as country/hillbilly rave-ups), titled A Hillbilly Tribute to AC/DC.
The Dixie Gentlemen were a bluegrass group from Alabama who were active during the early-'60s folk revival.
www.mp3.com /dixie   (349 words)

  
 EVERTONFC.COM: | History | Players | Greatest Ever Everton Team
Dean was a member of two First Division championship-winning sides in 1927/28 and 1931/32.
It was in this first season that Dean scored his record 60 league goals, hitting a hat-trick in the final match of the campaign at home to Arsenal.
Dean scored in 12 successive games in 1930/31 as Everton, relegated the year before, climbed back into Division One.
evertonfc.com /history/greatest-ever-everton-team.html?player=dixiedean   (242 words)

  
 BBC - Liverpool - Sport - Remembering Dixie Dean
William Ralph Dean was born on January 22 1907, known as Dixie Dean, he was the most prolific goal-scorer in English football history.
There'll also be plenty of radio archives including interviews with Dean himself and members of Dixie's family.
Dixie Dean speaking to Bob Azurdia in March 1972
www.bbc.co.uk /liverpool/content/articles/2007/01/18/sport_dixiedean_feature.shtml   (329 words)

  
 The Official Site of the Houston Texans   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
In fact it was Henry with 30 that led the Premiership this year but his 30 goals pale in comparison to the 60 Dean hit in 1927/28.  It also fall way shy of the 45 Dean scored in 1931/32.
Dean passed away in 1980 at Goodison Park, the home field of Everton, and according to Evertonians his spirit remains there.
In death Dixie Dean remains a huge asset for Everton F.C. When Everton F.C. runs out at Reliant Stadium on July 29 and August 1 to take on Pachuca and Club America somehow you get the feeling that the spirit of Dixie Dean will be there also.
www.houstontexans.com /news/news_detail.php?PRKey=786   (622 words)

  
 Dr. Dean And Dixie by Charley Reese
Howard Dean was born in New York City and has spent his life there and in Vermont.
The thing to note is that Dr. Dean first made his remark about wanting the votes of guys with Confederate decals on their pickup trucks at a meeting of national Democrats about three months ago.
I wish Dr. Dean had stuck to his guns and not apologized.
www.lewrockwell.com /reese/reese7.html   (690 words)

  
 worldxi.com
The greatest goal scorer in British football history, Dixie Dean was a focused striker.
On the last day of the 1927-1928 season, Dixie Dean entered the game vs. Arsenal with 57 goals, and broke the record with his hat-trick goal, heading the ball in during the closing minutes of the match.
Considered one of the toughest players, he did all of this despite serious injuries sustained from a motorcycle accident at the age of 19.
www.worldxi.com /ddean_gb.html   (153 words)

  
 Dean Milk Company Announced Recall of Some 2% Reduced Fat Milk
The recalled milk was processed at the Dean Milk Company, Inc. plant located in Louisville, Kentucky, and may have been distributed to Kroger, Winn- Dixie, Wal-Mart, Wesselman’s and convenience stores in Kentucky, Tennessee, Indiana and Ohio.
Dean Foods and retailers are removing the product from store shelves.
Dean Milk Company, Inc. stated, “As a dairy company that has been part of the community for 50 years, our consumers are our first concern.
www.fda.gov /oc/po/firmrecalls/dean11_03.html   (357 words)

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