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  Hall of Fame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A hall of fame is a type of museum established for any a field of endeavour to honour individuals of noteworthy achievement in that field.
The Automotive Hall of Fame is a hall of fame for notable figures in the development of the automobile industry.
The Motorsports Hall of Fame of America is a Hall of Fame and museum in Novi, Michigan for American motorsports legends.
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 NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
List of extinct states#Former colonies.2C possessions.2C protectorates and territories
The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum is a museum and institution in Cleveland, Ohio, United States, dedicated, as the name suggests, to recording the history of some of the best-known and most influential rock and roll performers, producers, and other people who have in some major way influenced the industry.
Hall of Fame inductees are honored in a special exhibit inside the museum's spire.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Hall-of-Fame   (652 words)

  
 Hall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Where the hall inside the front door of a house is elongated, it may be called a passage, or hallway.
It may be privately or government-owned, such as a function hall owned by one company used for weddings and cotillions (organized and run by the same company on a contractual basis) or a community hall available for rent to anyone.
Hall is also a surname of people, one of whose ancestors lived in a hall as distinct from one such as David M. Cote, whose ancestor will have lived in a cote, a much humbler place shared with the livestock.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Hall   (731 words)

  
 Hall - Biocrawler   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
As an extension of this, the front entranceway or entrance room of the house is also often called the hall because it serves as an access to the main part of the house (also called the entry hall).
The term hall can be used to refer to the houses of medieval kings and nobles, and to some kinds of building in their entirety, for example a Meeting hall, or a Church hall.
In German speaking areas, Hall can also be (part of) a town name, like Halle, where the name refers to hall, the celtic word for salt.
www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Hall   (434 words)

  
 Buckeye Hall Of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Hall is a term often used to refer to several different types of room in a house or a building.
As an extension of this, the front entranceway or entrance room of the house is also oftencalled the hall because it serves as an access to the main part of the house (also called the entry hall).
The term hall can be used to refer to the houses of medieval kings and nobles, and to some kinds of building in theirentirety, for example a Meeting hall, or a Church hall.
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 Footlights to fame - The Boston Globe
Boston city officials are proposing to create a Walk of Fame in the Theater District, after the fashion of the one on Hollywood Boulevard.
The walk, he added, will not highlight ''just any random star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame, but people who have lived part of their life in Anaheim and Orange County and who have made significant contributions to communities here.
Walks of Fame are not without their perils, however.
www.boston.com /news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/02/27/footlights_to_fame   (1025 words)

  
 Hall of Fame - TheBestLinks.com - Hall of fame, Baseball Hall of Fame, 1900, New York University, ...
Hall of Fame - TheBestLinks.com - Hall of fame, Baseball Hall of Fame, 1900, New York University,...
Hall of fame, Hall of Fame, Baseball Hall of Fame, 1900, New York University...
The earliest Hall of Fame, is the Hall of Fame for Great Americans, established by New York University in 1900.
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 Japanese Baseball Hall Of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
A list of baseball hall of fame resources containing information about baseball hall of fame.
A shrine to baseball's greatest players, the Hall of Fame is committed to preserving and promoting the education of baseball history.
Baseball Hall of Fame while some of the surviving members are still around.
www.baseballheaven.info /baseballinformation/japanese-baseball-hall-of-fame.html   (602 words)

  
 Cosgrove Hall Films   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Cosgrove Hall Films is an animation studio based in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester that is a major producer of children's television programmes.
Founded in 1976 by Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall, Cosgrove Hall Films was part of Thames Television until 1993 (when Thames lost it's weekday ITV London licence to Carlton).
Originally he was a villain/henchman recurring in the Dangermouse series, but got a spinoff series in 1988 that rapidly became one of Cosgrove Hall's most successful series.
www.33beat.com /hall.html   (551 words)

  
 List of halls and walks of fame - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The following is a list of Halls of Fame and Walks of Fame.
NASCAR Hall of Fame (to be completed in 2009)
National Museum of Racing and Hall of Fame
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_halls_and_walks_of_fame   (108 words)

  
 ! Hall of Fame
Fondren is also a member of the Texas High School Football Hall of Fame and the University of Texas Hall of Honor.
A member of the Freshwater Fishing Hall of Fame since 1976 and inducted into the Professional Bass Fishing Hall of Fame in 2001, he now rightfully joins other sportfishing pioneers and innovators in the IGFA Fishing Hall of Fame.
A recipient of numerous awards and honors, Ray Scott is a member of five Halls of Fame, an IGFA Trustee since 2002, and a 2003 inductee in the Horatio Alger Association of Distinguished Americans.
www.igfa.org /hall.asp   (19153 words)

  
 ESPN.com: MLB - Hall debates: Ron Santo
That's not because he himself isn't worthy, but because a bunch of spots on that list are occupied by outfielders who didn't hit enough to be enshrined.
Santo's best comparison is Dale Murphy, who is a Hall of Fame candidate for what he did as a center fielder and right fielder.
Part of the reason Santo has been left out of the Hall of Fame is that the BBWAA has never quite figured out what to do with third basemen.
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 Western Australian Football Hall of Fame   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
The Hall of Champions would pay tribute to players, while the Hall of Recognition would honour those off the field who had significantly contributed to the advancement of the game in other capacities.
A second induction into the Hall of Fame was held in November 2002 with a further eleven players and fourteen others being added to the list of the elite.
October 2005 saw the addition of the Hall of Legends into which four players were inducted.
members.iinet.com.au /~jacob/wasoccer/halloffame/HallOfFame.htm   (352 words)

  
 The Foundation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
I've heard people say over the years that "he or she was in the bowling hall of fame," when they should have said "he is in the American Bowling Congress" Hall of Fame, "she is in the Women's International Bowling Congress" Hall of Fame.
They are some of the greatest bowlers of all time, are in the PBA Hall of Fame, but they will never be in the USBC Hall of Fame because they chose not to bowl in the required 20 ABC National championship tournament during their illustrious careers.
Hall of Fame boards and selection committees could all meet at the same time in St. Louis a few months before the big week to make their selections and get together socially.
www.foundation300.com /cornerstone/2005/oct_newsletter.htm   (3845 words)

  
 Hall Did You Mean hall   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
At colleges in the universities of Oxford and Cambridge, Hall referred to the dining hall for students, with High Table at one end for fellows.
Typically, at "Formal Hall", gowns are worn for diner during the evening, whereas for "informal Hall" they are not.
This is a disambiguation page, a list of pages that otherwise might share the same title.
www.did-you-mean.com /Hall.html   (407 words)

  
 List of halls and walks of fame
List of characters and their fame sorted by profession.
Browseable list of walks on offer, with information on prices and food and drink required, with clickable map for information on walks in given areas.
Walks are held on Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays and range from half-day walks (approximately 3 to 5 miles) to full-day walks (approximately 6 to 18 miles).
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=List_of_Halls_and_Walks_of_Fame   (1599 words)

  
 Long Island Press: Long Island Newspaper, News, Entertainment, Real Estate, Classifieds, Automotive, Weddings, Business ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Schools, shops, cinema halls were shut for the day and few buses were running.
He found fame outside his home state of Karnataka after being kidnapped by notorious jungle bandit Veerappan in 2000.
A man walks past a burning bus on a street in the southern Indian city of Bangalore April 13, 2006.
www.longislandpress.com /reuters/1_ds_153216.php   (614 words)

  
 SportingNews.com Blogs
This hall of fame (located in Springfield, Massachusetts), unlike baseball and football's hall of fames, represents all of basketball in one hall.
This hall of fame, located in Oneonta, NY, features what the rest of the world calls "football." Among the information here that one might not expect is information about a high school tournament hosted by the museum, and a national soccer schedule.
This hall of champions (a slight name change from many of the others, titled halls of fame) is located in Indianapolis, Indiana.
www.sportingnews.com /blog/NJou41501/page2   (3851 words)

  
 Mike's Baseball Rants: January 2004 Archives   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
He didn’t walk a lot of men (20), but it was enough to affect his K-to-BB ratio a bit, even though it’s double the average for what amounts to 52 of the greatest seasons ever in relief pitching.
Thigpen's 4.74 ERA was the highest on the list (as compared to Mesa's 6.52, Williams' 6.27, and German's 6.04 in 2003).
His claim to fame was being the first NL president for a year until William Hulbert, the real power in the early NL, decided that he wanted the until-then figurehead position.) It should be a one-time readjustment, and I would prefer that only deceased players be expunged.
www.all-baseball.com /mikesbballrants/archives/2004_01.html   (6324 words)

  
 ESPN.com - Page2 - The Readers' list: Least likable ballplayers
Many of the older players on Page 2's list held views that where not extreme for their time, but Rocker's ancient prejudices have surely been eradicated from society and more specifically, the game of baseball long ago.
And to top it off, not only was he elected into the Hall of Fame, but he was the first to enter.
Give me a guy who is fourth on the all-time homers list and won the World Series and the league MVP in both leagues over a guy who's claim to fame was that he would run to first when he was walked.
espn.go.com /page2/s/leastliked/readers/010815.html   (1752 words)

  
 Baseball Toaster : Mike's Baseball Rants : Leggo My Gossage!—Baseball Toaster Hall of Fame Roundtable, Part III   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Yeah, but only three players on the list are eligible for the Hall (Greenberg, Colavito, and Allen), and the two that are not in have strong cases (though Allen's is the better of the two).
Good book (Whatever Happened to the Hall of Fame), all this Hall chat and $15 bucks to cash in at B&N as a result of Christmas has lead to me reading it as these discussions progress.
You know what bothers me most about 95% of the hall of fame discussions here and around the internet is the leaning on sabermatics.
mikesrants.baseballtoaster.com /archives/310412.html   (2060 words)

  
 Hall of Fame
Agriculture museum and Hall of Fame chartered by Congress to honor the American farmer.
The singer's visit to the Hall of Fame in 1999 reported by Larry Holden, with a biography and tributes by other musicians.
Hall of fame and museum preserving the history of the sport of volleyball and honoring its athletes, teams and organizations.
www.omniknow.com /common/wiki.php?in=en&term=Hall_of_Fame   (1764 words)

  
 Niagara Falls Daredevils: a history
For Farini, tightrope walking was but one of his many interests throughout his life.
Farini planned to walk to the brink of the Falls but one of the stilts he was wearing was caught in a crevice in the riverbed causing it to break.
The story of this tragic accident is listed under this section not because Roger Woodward was a daredevil but rather his survival was nothing less than a miracle.
www.iaw.com /~falls/devil_frame.html   (11825 words)

  
 » Canadian Luminaries: Hall of Fame «   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
Top 25 list of all-time Canadian music artists compiled using a combination of: opinions, international impact, record sales, popularity, and good sense.
Lists inductees from 1978 (Oscar Petersen) to present.
The Top 100 Awards is a symbol of the success women have attained and represents a unique array of proven achievers from many walks of life.
www.haltonlinks.com /iw_cdn_halls.html   (588 words)

  
 jazz hall of fame
The Jacksonville Jazz Hall of Fame serves to recognize those in the community who have made significant contributions to jazz in Jacksonville.
On the 30th day of September in the year 2004, Jazz at Lincoln Center celebrated the dedication of the Ertegun Hall of Fame and the official induction of its...
Year by year list of people born in or associated with the state who have made a mark in the world of jazz, with links.
www.logicjungle.com /wikifind-jazz+hall+of+fame.html   (311 words)

  
 Oklahoma Walk of Fame- revisited - OKCTalk
The idea of the walk of fame is to honor those people who have given honor to this state by their work, military service, and other areas.
I am trying to gather a list of people who have volunteered to help with the walk of fame and their talents (either proven or presumed), so we can start an email list to get this project off the ground (or, to be literal, ON the ground) and plan meetings without clogging message space.
I have misplaced the list of people who want to be on the walk of fame committee.
okctalk.com /okc-metro-area-talk/1284-oklahoma-walk-fame-revisited.html   (3164 words)

  
 Backseat Blonde -NASCAR Should Award Hall of Fame Project to Los Angeles - NASCAR
The Hall of Fame needs to be located in one of two places: Daytona or Charlotte.
But, the Hall of Fame can only be in Charlotte or Daytona.
And the Hall of Fame must be where racing is from and where the fans are.
www.backseatblonde.com /February21.html   (1026 words)

  
 Academy Hopes to Plug Alleged Oscar Leak - Feb 18, 2000 - E! Online News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
On Monday, Knowles presented a list of eight nominees in each category, saying it was the preliminary list from which the finalists would be chosen.
He also claimed the list, attributed to "Doctor Evil's Evil Lite Son," came from "deep within the halls of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences." (At the time, an Academy spokesperson told E! Online the list was "a hoax, totally untrue.
Now, after discovering the list was false and from a galaxy far from the "halls of the Academy," the Internet movie-gossip columnist is backpedaling like crazy.
www.eonline.com /News/Items/0,1,6042,00.html   (516 words)

  
 Chicago Theater Tickets Information-Theatre List & Schedule Game Day Tickets Chicago
Listed below are the top performances at the major theaters, most are located in downtown Chicago.
See the list at the bottom of the page for seating charts for these theatre venues.
From the pogroms of Russia to the halls of the Knesset, the story of Golda Meir is the story of the state of Israel in the 20th century.
www.sportsconcerts.com /chicago-theater-tickets.htm   (553 words)

  
 List of Halls and Walks of Fame Encyclopedia @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks)   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-18)
List of Halls and Walks of Fame Encyclopedia @ GreatArtworks.com (Great Artworks)
Home: Encyclopedia: List of Halls and Walks of Fame
Other List of Halls and Walks of Fame Categories:
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 Excalibur Electronics News - Excalibur News
But the Halls of Fame for both of these official governing bodies of chess are in Miami, in a specially designed and constructed wing of Excalibur Electronics new 32,000-square-foot office building.
When you walk through the castle on your way to the main rooms of the Museum, you feel as though you've entered a mediaeval chamber.
On the list now are three items that are certain to be featured in many stores around the world in the upcoming months.
www.excaliburelectronics.com /excal_news.htm   (1249 words)

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