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 Encyclopedia: Masterton
Masterton is a thriving community with a 2001 population of 22,617
It therefore did not quite qualify to be a city by 1989 when the minimum population requirement for that status was lifted from 20,000 to 50,000.
Although Masterton and the Wairarapa valley are reasonably close to Wellington, they are separated by the Rimutaka Ranges with a narrow winding road and a rail tunnel.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Masterton   (625 words)

  
 Legends of Hockey -- NHL Player Search -- Player -- Bill Masterton
Masterton and the Canadiens played in the Memorial Cup playoffs, where he tallied eight points in six games but it was the OHA's Toronto Marlboros who successfully defended their national junior amateur title.
Masterton helped the school to win an impressive three NCAA national titles, in 1958, 1960 and again in his senior year in 1961, when he was named the most valuable player of the entire NCAA tournament.
Masterton toiled patiently in the minors for six years, mostly in the USHL before getting a shot at the NHL when the league expanded to 12 teams for the 1967-68 campaign.
www.legendsofhockey.net:8080 /LegendsOfHockey/jsp/SearchPlayer.jsp?player=13562   (506 words)

  
 Year 2000 Gould Award for Citizenship goes to Nancy Masterton
Masterton, a native of Massachusetts moved to Maine from Minnesota in 1962.
Masterton joked that she would have only a few words on accepting the award, since she knew the council had other business to attend to.
Masterton's service outside of the town boundaries include membership on the board of trustees of the Portland Public Library, the Cumberland County Charter Commission, the Maine Board of Environmental Protection, the Maine Arts Commission, the Maine Historical Society Board of Trustees and several United Way committees.
www.capeelizabeth.com /news/masterton.html   (402 words)

  
 Masterton ... the heart of Wairarapa   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Masterton was established by Joseph Masters in 1854.
Masterton is the largest town in Wairarapa and has played a traditional role as the service centre for extended urban and rural communities.
Masterton is a great place to get away from the city yet has all the amenities for a perfect holiday including excellent cafes and restaurants.
www.wairarapanz.com /masterton.html   (328 words)

  
 Masterton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Masterton in the Wairarapa contain some interesting remnents of New Zealand mechanical signalling practice.
Masterton is unique among country stations in 2004, having up to six passenger trains a day in each direction.
Masterton uses an inexpensive way of locking the frame while the Up Home signal is cleared.
www.trainweb.org /valleysignals/masterton/masterton.html   (516 words)

  
 Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy is awarded annually to the National Hockey League player who best exemplifies the qualities of perseverance, sportsmanship, and dedication to hockey.
The trophy is named in honour of the late Bill Masterton, a Minnesota North Stars player who died on January 15, 1968, after sustaining an injury during a hockey game.
During his playing career, Masterton exhibited the qualities for which the trophy is dedicated.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bill_Masterton_Memorial_Trophy   (127 words)

  
 Masterton Speeches   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Masterton has almost 18 000 in the urban area, with a total of 22 900 when the rural population is included.
For the next seven years Masterton was the home for two or three older-teenagers who developed their English language skills and took courses in a variety of areas while being home-hosted.
Masterton has faced a number of problems in hosting Chinese teenagers and in not being able to provide suitable employment or opportunities to adults who have travelled to live in Masterton.
www.sistercities.org.nz /Editable/Speeches/DonaldSimpson.html   (1206 words)

  
 About Masterton District Library   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The Masterton Spinners and Weavers created a wall hanging for the children's section and the Wairarapa Embroiderers Guild constructed an embroidered wall hanging consisting of 110 panels, with each panel commemorating an event of significance in the history of the Wairarapa.
The Masterton Licensing Trust was celebrating its 50th anniversary in 1997, and donated a statue of Russian Jack, the last of the swaggers, to Masterton in commemoration.
Masterton is one of a group of 23 libraries in the Trust area participating in this programme.
library.mstn.govt.nz /library.html   (953 words)

  
 William Girdler: Graham Masterton
Graham Masterton wrote his debut horror novel titled The Manitou in 1975.
Graham Masterton is an award-winning author with over 30 horror novels to his credit, including Revenge of the Manitou and The Pariah.
Masterton via email, and he charitably agreed to answer a few questions regarding The Manitou.
www.williamgirdler.com /masterton.html   (841 words)

  
 Masterton Accommodation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Masterton is located in the Wairarapa region of New Zealand, in the south east of the North Island.
Masterton is just an hour away from the capital city Wellington over the Tararua Mountains to the west, and on the east is the Pacific Ocean which creates a sense of isolation.
Masterton is the commercial heart of the Wairarapa farming area, New Zealand sheep country and was the site of New Zealand’s first sheep station.
www.ki-wi.co.nz /masterton.htm   (290 words)

  
 Leopard Softball Sweeps Holy Cross to Start Patriot League Play :: Jill Masterton went 5-for-7, scored three runs and ...
In the nightcap, Masterton led off the eighth with a triple and trotted home with the winning run on a sacrifice fly by Kathryn Longshore in a 4-3 victory.
Masterton, who went 5-for-7 on the day, started the seventh with a single and moved to second on a single by pinch hitter Erin Pawlak.
Masterton pulled the ball into the left field corner to open the home half of the eighth and beat the throw to third to put the winning run 60 feet away.
patriotleague.collegesports.com /sports/w-softbl/recaps/032605aab.html   (908 words)

  
 Masterton Trophy would be special honor for Yzerman - 06/10/03   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Masterton was a member of the Minnesota North Stars when he died on Jan. 15, 1968, two days after being checked by two Oakland Seals players.
Masterton, from St. Boniface, Manitoba, played college hockey at the University of Denver, earning his master's degree in finance while also being named an All-American.
The Masterton Trophy, an annual award under the trusteeship of the Professional Hockey Writers Association, was created in 1968.
www.detnews.com /2003/wings/0306/10/sports-188991.htm   (509 words)

  
 Search: Masterton - Info.co.uk
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 Amazon.com: Books: Trauma   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Masterton's descriptions of the grim crime scenes are intoxicating (a man's blown-off head had "fallen backward so that, juglike, it had emptied its blood all over the floor") yet never gratuitous, and he neatly intertwines the Clouded Apollo story line with the saga of Bonnie's lackluster home life and budding affair with her Glamorex boss.
Masterton takes a banal narrative and a seemingly-minor plot point and delivers a surprise that is wild yet completely organic to the story.
Masterton has expertly, in the space of 200 pages (if you buy paperback), woven a tight, brilliantly paced story about Bonnie, her life's work, and her life's ruin.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0451205553?v=glance   (1774 words)

  
 The Devil in Gray
This Devil’s Brigade was a band of special troops commanded by General Longstreet, which was supposed to go out in advance of Confederate troops on the eve of the Battle of the Wilderness and commit atrocities calculated to demoralize the Federal soldiers.
Masterton, a Brit, doesn’t seem to understand the delicate balance of racial and class tensions unique to the modern American South.
Another detail that Masterton got wrong was his representation of Voodon (or Voodoo), which he frequently confuses with Santeria.
www.lsu.edu /necrofile/devilingray15.htm   (817 words)

  
 German Shepherd Dog for sale
I was allowed to own my very first German Shepherd in the 60's and loved the obedience side of things rather than the showing so did obedience with her and actually took her through to CD which was a thrill for me only being very young in those days.
Masterton Kennels was registered as a kennel name back in the 70's when along with my mother and sister the kennel name was decided after numerous rejections of other name choices by the NSWCCC.
It was a case of we needed one more name for our list so we just threw it in and bingo we were allowed that one.
www.masterton.info /main.htm   (387 words)

  
 Masterton Golf Club, Lansdowne Course | Masterton, Wairarapa, New Zealand
The Masterton Golf Club was established in 1899 and is one of the oldest golf clubs in New Zealand.
Rolling hills north of Masterton have provided scope for 18 holes of slopes and gullies, which the designer used to maximum benefit: there are beautiful views all around.
To the west lie the Tararua Ranges, snow capped in winter, to the south Cook's Strait, and to the east a series of hills extends towards the Pacific Ocean.
www.mastergolf.org.nz   (102 words)

  
 Fictionwise eBooks: Graham Masterton
Bio: Graham Masterton wrote THE MANITOU in 1975, and the story of a Native American medicine man returning from the dead to seek his revenge on the white man was an immediate success, selling over a million copies in its first six months.
Since then Masterton has written over 75 novels, horror, thrillers and historical sagas, as well as publishing four collections of short stories and editing Scare Care, an anthology of horror stories for the benefit of abused children.
Born in 1946 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Graham Masterton was a newspaper reporter before taking over joint editorship of the British edition of Penthouse and Penthouse Forum magazines.
www.fictionwise.com /eBooks/GrahamMastertoneBooks.htm   (598 words)

  
 Robert Burns Country: The Burns Encyclopedia: Masterton, Allan (d. 1799)
When Burns was in Edinburgh, Masterton was a writing master in Stevenlaw's Close, in the High Street.
The jollification resulted in that splendid drinking song, 'Willie brew'd a peck o' maut', for which Masterton wrote the music.
October 1789, Burns described Masterton as 'one of the worthiest men in the world, and a man of real genius'.
www.robertburns.org /encyclopedia/MastertonAlland1799.583.shtml   (492 words)

  
 Operation of 1606 Wellington - Masterton Passenger   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
The wagons from Masterton were left on the main line while 645 entered the JNL siding at Waingawa to pick up wagons.
At Masterton the locomotive off 1606 is turned and coupled to the loco from 1608.
I have estimated the times at Masterton for 670 and 671 by assuming a running time of two hours between Wellington and Masterton.
www.trainweb.org /valleysignals/cabpass1606/1606operations.html   (572 words)

  
 NHL's Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy
The Bill Masterton Memorial Trophy was created in honor of the late Bill Masterton who played for the Minnesota North Stars during the 1967-68 NHL season.
Bill Masterton died on January 15th, 1968 after suffering a head injury as a result of a fall during a game on January 13th against the Oakland Seals at the Metropolitan Sports Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota.
Regardless which version of the event is true, Bill Masterton fell backwards and slammed the back of his head hard against the ice.
www.hardice.com /Trophy/nhltrophybm.html   (424 words)

  
 Masterton, North Island, New Zealand
Masterton also has easy access to the Tararua Ranges, many attractive river spots and beaches at Castlepoint and Riversdale.
To the north of Masterton are the Mount Bruce Pioneer Museum and the Mount Bruce National Wildlife Centre, which breeds rare and endangered native species.
There is a 45 minute walk across the reef to the lighthouse, as well as a longer walk to a limestone cave.
www.jasons.com /001338,NZL,NI,LOWERNI,MASTE,PG,1,.mel#scroll_   (363 words)

  
 An interview with Jim Rook by Graham Masterton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
I talked to Jim Rook during midday recess on the lawns outside West Grove Community College in Los Angeles, where he is a teacher in remedial English.
That person you drowned may very well be waiting for you to enter the water.
I mean, this is not just a delusion, some very famous and reliable people have seen it, like Peary and Amundsen.
freespace.virgin.net /the.sleepless/rookinterview.htm   (665 words)

  
 NZLD Masterton Guide * New Zealand Online Directory, Links,Listings, Recommendations & Reviews *
Masterton is a good base for exploring the Wairarapa.
Masterton is a centre which hosts a wide variety of events, the highlights being a week long balloon festival, first class cricket matches, dragonboat racing.
The land for the park was set aside by the pioneers, and the playground was mostly developed by volunteers - both examples of Masterton people caring for the children who visit the park in large numbers.
masterton-guide.nzld.com   (825 words)

  
 Graham Masterton master of Lies Reviewed by Rick Kleffel   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In the opening passage of "Master of Lies", Graham Masterton describes the last moments of a happy San Francisco family, then details their torture and murder by a brutal serial killer.
To his credit, Masterton does come up with a couple of interesting supernatural surprises.
Although the San Francisco setting of "Master of Lies" is nearly letter-perfect, the plot and characters that move through Masterton's Fog City are best left in the haze.
trashotron.com /agony/reviews/masterton-master_of_lies.htm   (413 words)

  
 bookideas.com: A Terrible Beauty by Graham Masterton
As in others of his books, Masterton seems to take real pains to describe the physicality of what happens to the unfortunate characters he has created (as in The Hymn, for example).
The intrusion of things beyond the ken of humanity is, therefore, to be welcomed from time to time.
Masterton is an accomplished and experienced writer and is able to drive his story onwards skillfully and without tedious interludes or jarring transitions.
www.bookideas.com /reviews/index.cfm?fuseaction=displayReview&id=1699   (333 words)

  
 Masterton Homes Latest News   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
Masterton have opened 2 display homes at Fletcher on the Central Coast.
The Sirocco 7 split level (single storey) and the NEW Fernleigh 36 (double storey).
If you would like to receive a newsletter which gives you regular updates about what is going on at Masterton Homes then click here for a Subscription form.
www.masterton.com.au /masterton/Live/me.get?SITE.HOME&FFFF110   (224 words)

  
 Amazon.com: Books: Holy Terror   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
In British author Masterton's convoluted thriller, Conor O'Neil, a former NYPD cop who now serves as chief of security at a swanky Manhattan jewelry store, breaks up a robbery of his store's vault, only to discover the safe deposit boxes empty and himself the prime suspect in a massive heist.
Investigating while on the run as a fugitive, O'Neil finds he's been the victim of a team of powerful hypnotists, and the subsequent robbery was a means to cover their tracks.
Despite a preposterous plot and several blatantly manipulative action scenes, Masterton remains a mesmerizing storyteller whose fascination with the fine points of human weakness and deft touch for the total gross-out keep the pages turning.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0727860674?v=glance   (516 words)

  
 Joseph Masters Descendants celebrate at Masterton 150 years
This book explores the interesting, often enigmatic, life of Joseph Masters founder of Masterton and one of the originators of the Small Farms Association that established unique settlements in Greytown and Masterton in 1854 - 150 years ago.
The Memoirs of Joseph Masters includes his memoirs, not published before and assembled by him towards tthe end of his life largely from newspaper articles he sent to the newspaper in Derby, England, where he was born and grew up.
Masterton 150 Years year of activities which was started on
www.wizbiz.co.nz /josephmasters.htm   (396 words)

  
 Graham Masterton   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
It is now left to Jim and his engaging class of slow-lane students to face a shattering confrontation between the cultures of new and ancient America.
With over 25 horror novels and 50 short stories to his name, Graham Masterton is one of the world's bestselling horror writers.
Graham Masterton lives in Epsom, Surrey with his wife and agent Wieseka Masterton.
www.twbooks.co.uk /authors/grahammasterton.html   (354 words)

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