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  Frank Beard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Frank Beard -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
After turning fifty he played on the Senior PGA Tour (now the (additional info and facts about Champions Tour) Champions Tour), where he won the 1990 Murata Reunion Pro-Am.
Beard has also worked as a golf commentator on (additional info and facts about ESPN) ESPN.
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/frank_beard.htm   (147 words)

  
 ZZ Top - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The band members are Billy Gibbons (vocals and guitar, of Moving Sidewalks), Dusty Hill (bass, of The American Blues) and Frank Beard (drums, of The Cellar Dwellers, The Hustlers, and The American Blues).
(Frank Beard, ironically, does not wear a beard.) In 1984, the Gillette company offered Gibbons and Hill $1 million apiece to shave their beards for a commercial, but they declined.
Frank Beard is the only band member who doesn't have a beard.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/ZZ_Top   (714 words)

  
 Frank Beard   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Frank Beard (1842-1905) was the principal illustrator for The Ram's Horn.
In the "early fifties" (1850s) Beard was a boy of "7 or 8 years old" when he first saw Yankee Notions, which he termed "the first American comic journal," published by T.W. Strong of 98 Nassau Street in New York city.
Beard's first memories were of Brother Jonathan, which he found in his Christmas stocking.
history.osu.edu /Projects/Rams_Horn/beard.htm   (252 words)

  
 Comic creator: Frank Beard
Frank Beard was a widely known American illustrator from the late nineteenth century.
Apparently Beard's first work as an illustrator was for Comic Monthly, published from 1859 to 1881.
Beard had an active career as an illustrator.
lambiek.net /artists/b/beard_frank.htm   (80 words)

  
 DistrictAdvisory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Beard shared survey results from the University of Minnesota, which confirmed the fact that those connected to school through clubs and other various extra-curricular activities were less involved in violence or drugs.
Beard distributed a copy of a pamphlet on “Club Drugs,” which are the most rapidly increasing drugs used these days, to each of the members of the committee.
Beard stated that he had not received pricing information on the t-shirts yet, but he encouraged all members to submit an order form for the shirts for the winners and sponsors at each school.
www.levelland.isd.tenet.edu /DrugFree.htm   (7674 words)

  
 A GAME OF CIVILITY
Frank went over to the boy, squatted down and urged him to be quiet for the sake of JC Snead, still trying to putt out.
Frank told the boy that he only had the 17th and 18th holes to play and he told the boy to stand by "that post over there" and wait for him to finish.
Frank Beard, currently a columnist with Sports Illustrated magazine, might not be on anyone's list of top PGA players in history (although he was the Player of the Year in 1969), but he will always be at the top of my list.
finleyongolf.com /articles/agameofcivility.htm   (1012 words)

  
 FOURTH GENERATION
Glenn Beard was a Texas Ranger, and was part of a group of 16 Rangers under Captain Jerry Gray that were suspended from duty on February 1, 1917, as a result of a mission into Mexico.
Beard is survived by her husband, A. Beard; two children Isabelle and Frank; her mother, Mrs.
Essie Beard is survived by two daughters, Betty C. Waters of Manchaca, Texas, and Mary Pat Malloy of Los Osos, California; nine grandchildren; 19 great-granchildren; and one half-brother, Walter Turner of Sulphur Springs, Texas.
www.mindspring.com /~eehiv/nelson/d454.htm   (1009 words)

  
 Reviews
Frank explored how signs of counter culture such as hippie dress were quickly incorporated into fashion, and mass produced as commodities.
Beard’s columns, Frank’s Baffler, the cyberpunk essays all share the characteristic of “immediacy” that is one of the traits of a new generation of cultural studies as defined in Hop on Pop by Henry Jenkins, Tara McPherson and Jane Shattuc, who jettison the scholarly tradition of writing “from a distance”.
Beard writes from inside the world of popular culture professionals and celebrity, dropping names and terms like trees dropping leaves in the autumn, and so excludes those not immersed in it.
www.cercles.com /review/r9/beard.html   (948 words)

  
 ZZ Top
The band members are Billy Gibbons (vocals and guitar, of Moving Sidewalks), Dusty Hill (guitar, of The American Blues) and Frank Beard (drums, of The Cellar Dwellers, The Hustlers, and The American Blues).
(Frank Beard, interestingly, does not wear a beard.) In 1984, the Gillette company offered Gibbons and Hill $1 million apiece to shave their beards for a commercial, but they declined.
Their biggest hit was the 1983 album Eliminator, boosted to prominence by music videos for the tracks "Gimme All Your Lovin'", "Legs" and "Sharp Dressed Man" each of which featured a small bright red roadster called The Eliminator and a mysterious trio of beautiful women who travel around helping various people in the videos.
www.brainyencyclopedia.com /encyclopedia/z/zz/zz_top.html   (517 words)

  
 Articles - Frank Beard (musician)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Frank Beard, born June 11, 1949 in Frankston, Texas, is the drummer in the blues-rock band ZZ Top.
Beard was formerly with The Cellar Dwellers, The Hustlers, and The American Blues bands before joining Billy Gibbons and Dusty Hill in 1970 to form "That Little Ol' Band from Texas," better known as ZZ Top.
An interesting note is that Frank Beard is the only member of ZZ Top who does not have a beard.
www.lastring.com /articles/Frank_Beard_(musician)?mySession=8ec90a4ffaf403e14f04062e3b99f752   (142 words)

  
 DistrictAdvisory   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Beard suggested that the video library might be better utilized if it were divided among the campuses and placed in their libraries.
Beard reminded the committee of upcoming assemblies including Primary Focus for West and the elementary campuses on February 16/17, Spiderman for West, the elementary campuses and Middle School on April 28, and a multi-media presentation by MADD on May 10 for Middle School and High School.
Beard reported that tobacco usage in Levelland is higher than the state average, according to the Texas A and M drug survey.
www.levelland.isd.tenet.edu /drugfreeminutes.htm   (5565 words)

  
 AllRefer.com - Covington, United States (U.S. Political Geography) - Encyclopedia
Among its points of interest are the suspension bridge to Cincinnati (designed by J. Roebling); Devou Park, with a museum of natural history; Cathedral Basilica of the Assumption; the tiny Monte Casino chapel; the Garden of Hope; and the Carneal House (1815).
Frank Duveneck was born in Covington, and the city has a museum devoted to his paintings.
The artist and naturalist Daniel Carter Beard was also born (and lived) in Covington.
reference.allrefer.com /encyclopedia/C/Covingto.html   (264 words)

  
 ZZ Top Biography   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Mitchell was then replaced by Frank Beard while Dusty Hill subsequently joined in place of Ethridge.
One of rock's maverick attractions, Gibbons, Hill and Beard have retained their eccentric, colourful image, dark glasses and Stetson hats, complete with an almost casual musical dexterity that has won over hardened cynics and carping critics.
In addition to having produced a fine (but sparse) canon of work, they will also stay in the record books as having the longest beards in musical history (although one member, the inappropriately named Frank Beard, is clean-shaven).
www.bandbiographies.com /zz_top/biography.htm   (771 words)

  
 GOLFONLINE - The Frank Sinatra Invitational only lasted one year, but, oh, what a shindig   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Arrogant, irreverent, yet cherished by an adoring public, Frank and the Pack swaggered and caroused, yet remained endearingly and undeniably the hottest ticket of their generation.
It was the one-time-only, PGA-sanctioned, Frank Sinatra Invitational, followed by a fl-tie gala in the ballroom of the Palm Springs Riviera Hotel.
Frank Beard, then a 24-year-old sophomore pro, won the tournament, having had to qualify on the previous Monday just to get in.
www.golfonline.com /golfonline/print/0,18068,467833,00.html   (1015 words)

  
 Las Vegas SUN: Rancher takes stock of the Super Bowl of rodeos
Beard met Charlot when he started working for her father, John Van Belle.
Beard's grandson, Daniel Beard, was the flank man at the NFR this year.
Frank's sons, Casey and Pat, help out at the Ellensburg rodeo with his son-in-law, Don Stewart, and nephew, Randy Allan.
www.lasvegassun.com /sunbin/stories/nevada/2005/jan/07/010710563.html   (768 words)

  
 The Frank Edwards Well   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Frank has a very unique and humorous personality and is always joking around.
Frank Edwards, a member in Akron, agreed to shave off his 25 year old beard if we could raise $200 or more for LifeNets.
We suspect that Frank’s beard was the most valuable beard in history—raising $1,331 alone for the LifeNets project.
www.lifenets.org /volunteers/akron2002.htm   (1761 words)

  
 Daily Record Online   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Frank Beard pulled up to a herd of hungry horses in a Dodge pickup truck on Friday.
As a rodeo stock contractor, Beard provides animals for cowboys to ride in the roughstock events - bareback riding, saddle bronc riding and bull riding.
The Beards moved to Kittitas County from the Outlook-Sunnyside area in 1977.
www.kvnews.com /articles/2004/12/21/news/news01.txt   (784 words)

  
 The Big Fight   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Frank was 18 and a laborer on the next farm from where Tom lived.
Frank was the son of Enoch and Mahala Everett.
One day in 1895, Frank and a young boy named Wiley Ervin, who was 13 at the time was returning with a load of hickory logs to be used in Frank's business.
wjwhatley.com /tjw.html   (4297 words)

  
 pet: My cuddly babies
I love Frank and Nikki pictures and the piggy is becoming
Frank's 16th birthday, but Nikki has pretty much adopted it as her baby.
Frank's only interested in it when I rub catnip on it.
www.petsforum.org /ftopic15707_My_cuddly_babies.html   (667 words)

  
 ZZ Top History
Beard came from Fort Worth: Previously he had played with The Hustlers and with The Cellar Dwellers (who had a single to their credit).
Dan Mitchell was then replaced by Frank Beard while Dusty Hill subsequently joined in place of Ethridge).
Beard is alleged to have said to Gibbons (about Dusty) "He's our kind of guy." after Beard had once introduced himself to Dusty Hill in a bar.
www.kieran.keegan.btinternet.co.uk /ZZTop/zz_top_history.htm   (1948 words)

  
 Ryder Cup - History - 1971 Results   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In the third match, Frank Beard and Charles Coody went 3 down after six holes to Maurice Bembridge and Peter Butler and then 4 down after ten.
Peter Townsend had by this time been involved in four matches, which went all the way and had been on the losing side in them all.
In the last match out, Charles Coody and Frank Beard were running away with it after five holes when they were 4 up.
www.golf.com /rydercup/2004/history/year.asp?year=1971   (1809 words)

  
 Relations Of Brian Keith Botley Sr.   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Children were: Kate BEARD, Isabella BEARD, Alice BEARD, Louis BEARD, Elizabeth BEARD, Agnes BEARD, Frank BEARD.
Children were: David BEARD, Jacob BEARD, John W. Elizabeth BEARD, Frederick BEARD Jr.
He was married to Sarah BEARD on 10 Apr 1859 in Muskingum County, Ohio.
www.botley.net /Genealogy/d22.htm   (1052 words)

  
 CNN.com - Showbuzz - Oct. 16, 2002
PARIS, France (AP) -- ZZ Top drummer Frank Beard pulled out of a European tour after being rushed to a Paris hospital with appendicitis.
Beard had surgery Sunday and missed a sold-out appearance Monday at Le Zenith, a venue in Paris, the band's publicist said.
Beard's drum technician John Douglas was to step in until he recovers.
archives.cnn.com /2002/SHOWBIZ/10/16/showbuzz   (718 words)

  
 ZZ Top - rock and roll music at the RockSite
This sturdy American blues-rock trio from Texas consists of Billy Gibbons (guitar), Dusty Hill (bass), and Frank Beard (drums).
Now sporting long beards, golf hats, and boiler suits, they met the emerging video age head-on, reducing their "message" to simple iconography.
One of rock's maverick attractions, Gibbons, Hill and Beard have retained their eccentric, colorful image, dark glasses and Stetson hats, complete with an almost casual musical dexterity that has won over hardened cynics and carping critics.
www.rocksite.info /r-zztop.htm   (1166 words)

  
 Other Christian Comics & Cartooning Pioneers   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In early 1850s, Beard was a boy of 7 or 8 years old when he first saw Yankee Notions, which he later termed "the first American comic journal," published by T.W. Strong in New York City USA.
Beard drew both single panel cartoons and sequential art (comics).
After finishing high school, she was married to Frank J. Hoth, and in 1938 Iva began working for the David C. Cook Publishing Co. (then in Elgin, Illinois) as a writer of Sunday School curricula.
members.aol.com /christiancomics/OtherPioneers.html   (3846 words)

  
 ABC - DIG - 16/10/2002: ZZ Not Tip Top
Two years ago bassist Dusty Hill broke two ribs in an accident before the band’s appearance at the East Coast Blues & Roots Music Festival in Byron Bay and laster he was diagnosed with Hepatitis C and the band was forced to cancel a European tour.
According to Launch.com the 53-year-old Beard issued a statement which saying, "I really hate to miss a show, but we're lucky that John's available.
The shows with Douglas on drums, which began Monday at Le Zenith in Paris, were the first time in the group's 33-year history that the original lineup of Beard, guitarist Billy Gibbons, and bassist Dusty Hill have not performed as ZZ Top.
www.abc.net.au /dig/stories/s702540.htm   (201 words)

  
 SI.com - Writers - Frank Beard: Tiger looks more than ready to end major drought at Whistling Straits - Tuesday August ...
Frank Beard played on the PGA Tour for 20 years and was the leading money winner and Player of the Year in 1969.
I don't care for the Stableford scoring either, but it is different, and the Tour can always use something to keep us from dozing off.
Frank, I enjoyed your column on John Daly.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/writers/frank_beard/08/10/woods.pga   (1058 words)

  
 SI.com - Writers - Frank Beard: It was clear the Europeans wanted the Ryder Cup more than the U.S. - Tuesday September ...
SI.com - Writers - Frank Beard: It was clear the Europeans wanted the Ryder Cup more than the U.S. - Tuesday September 21, 2004 2:29PM
Beard, I just wanted to let you know that in 1970, when your book about your previous season on Tour came out, I had just taken up golf and wasn't really enthused about it.
Your book proved to be one of the inspirations that has made golf a large part of my life since that time.
sportsillustrated.cnn.com /2004/writers/frank_beard/09/21/us.desire   (1500 words)

  
 Billy, Frank, and Dusty Head for the Border
As it was in the beginning, the ZZ TOP of 2003 boasts its original personnel line up — Billy F Gibbons, Dusty Hill and Frank Beard.
The completion of a new ZZ TOP album is cause for unbridled jubilance among the band's considerable fan base around the world, and this latest effort, to be released by RCA Records on April 15th, is no exception.
Not content to rest on their considerable laurels, the band has taken something of a cutting edge approach on the new album in both sonic and compositional terms.
www.bttf.com /news/03031302.shtml   (624 words)

  
 Shell Houston Open: PGA TOUR Event, Houston, Texas
On hole No. 12, Beard chipped in for birdie while Arnold Palmer three-putted for bogey...
A birdie from 20 feet on the last hole secured the victory for Beard...
Beard shot a 67 to defeat Palmer by one stroke...
www.shellhoustonopen.com /t_champs.cfm?task=story&ID=22   (191 words)

  
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Their efforts attracted little notice until they formed The Warlocks, who managed to release a pair of unsuccessful local singles (see separate entry).
By 1968 the lineup had expanded to include former Cellar Dweller drummer Frank Beard and keyboard player Dough Davis.
We also have a copy of the reissue which is your for $20.00.
www.geocities.com /rdten3/AMERICANblues.htm   (493 words)

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