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  Mongo Racing - Randy Merritt, professional racer
Mongo Racing dominated the 2006 Race Season with their title sponsor, KC HiLiTES.
MONGO WRAPS 2006 DRIVING CHAMPIONSHIP WITH SECOND PLACE FINISH AT BEST IN THE DESERT HENDERSON TERRIBLE'S 400 Read about it!
Mongo Racing, featured in U.S. Auto Scene, January 8, 2007
www.mongoracing.com   (67 words)

  
  Mongo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The name of a giant gingerbread man in the movie Shrek 2; the name of this character is a reference to the Blazing Saddles Mongo.
A Mongolian monetary unit, 100 mongo equal 1 Tugrug.
Mongo the Magnificent, a fictional private eye with dwarfism.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongo   (322 words)

  
 Mongo (planet) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Mongo is the fictional planet where the action of the comic strip (and later movie serials) of Flash Gordon is located.
Part of the planet is covered by the forest realm of Arboria, another by caverns and mountains, and part is the frozen kingdom of Frigia.
Mongo is inhabited by a number of different cultures, some quite technologically advanced, that have been falling one by one under the domination of the vicious tyrant Ming the Merciless, including the Lion Men, the Hawk Men, the Clay People and the Blue Magic Men.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mongo_(planet)   (164 words)

  
 Congahead.com: Musicians: Departed
Mongo's body of work is an inspiration to many musicians and his 1963 recording of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man" is a tune that will serve as a remembrance of Santamaria's legacy.
Mongo was also a friend and inspiration of mine, and his influence is part of the reason why I founded Latin Percussion.
Mongo Santamaria had perhaps a most powerful impact on my career and thereby on LP, the company that I founded in 1964.
www.congahead.com /Musicians/Departed/santamaria/mongo.htm   (280 words)

  
 Ngwane, George: Mongo Beti: the writer-gadfly   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mongo Beti's popularity was beyond Cameroon and the Francophonie, his work was highly read in other parts of Africa.
I saw Mongo Beti as a writer-activist, a gadfly; one who ought to lodge a claim for artistic leadership but also had a desire to lay emphasis on the democratic dividend of peace, social justice and economic empowerment.
I consider Mongo Beti's decision to be active in the Social Democratic Front (the main Opposition Party in Cameroon) as a blunder.
www.bellagiopublishingnetwork.org /newsletter30/ngwane.htm   (1106 words)

  
 Mongo and Found uncover the hidden pleasures of reduce-reuse-recycle | By Michelle Nijhuis | Grist Magazine | Arts and ...
Mongo, by Ted Botha, Bloomsbury, 288 pgs., 2004.
Their finds are a relatively small part of the city's massive waste stream, but the valuable stuff they encounter -- near-perfect linens, for instance -- hints that a lot of things get thrown away that shouldn't.
Some of Botha's mongo collectors are explicit curators of the past, out to save or resurrect Gothic rooms, old statuary, or even outdated computers.
www.grist.org /advice/books/2004/12/07/nijhuis-trash   (1225 words)

  
 ASC | Library | Web dossiers | About the web dossiers - Mongo Beti
Mongo Beti, one of the foremost writers of Africa's independence generation, started his career as a writer in 1953 with the publication of the short story 'Sans haine et sans amour'.
Mongo Beti was born as Alexandre Biyidi (or Biyidi-Awala) in 1932 in a village south of Yaounde.
Mongo Beti's novelistic œuvre can be divided into three distinct periods.
www.ascleiden.nl /Library/Webdossiers/MongoBeti.aspx   (1706 words)

  
 Amazon.com: The Cold Smell of Sacred Stone (A Mongo Mystery): Books: George C. Chesbro   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
When Mongo is attacked by mysterious forces, Garth escapes with a homicidal maniac and surfaces in New York, heading a cult m that cares for the needy in an abandoned bathhouse.
Mongo and his six-foot-three-inch brother, Garth (retired NYPD detective) have been through two nightmares, described in "The Beasts of Valhalla" and "Two Songs This Archangel Sings, " that have left Garth in a coma, induced by poisoning with a rare, top secret chemical, usually used only by intelligence agents to mark clothing and objects.
Mongo practices his own unorthodox therapy in an attempt to get Garth to rejoin the world; he plays Garth unabridged recordings of the operas of Wagner's ring cycle, figuring that the associations with the Valhalla project will shake Garth out of his stupor if anything will.
www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0967450322?v=glance   (2396 words)

  
 Jazz News Story - A Tribute to Mongo Santamaria@ jazzreview.com
Mongo Santamaria was born and raised in Havana, Cuba in 1917 and came to the U.S. in the 1950's.
Mongo can be credited with making the "conga" drum re-emerge in music all over the world, and his contribution is as significant as that of the Beatles who revolutionized modern music in other ways.
Mongo represents a personification of the courageousness, vivacity and stamina represented by this mythological hero.
www.jazzreview.com /articledetails.cfm?ID=2567   (870 words)

  
 Mongo
Mongo is a set of the programs to test linux filesystems for performance and functionality.
The expression "optij=valij" means that mongo option optij was specified by the value valij.
The mongo options keep its values (specified or default) during all the mongo.pl session unless you respecify another ones.
www.namesys.com /benchmarks/mongo_readme.html   (1899 words)

  
 mongo
Mongo only played the one year (with a torn knee ligament, to boot), and according to several reports was not happy with his time with the Packers; he retired after the 1994-95 season.
Mongo was often in tag-team matchups with Beniot as his partner.
In January 2000 Mongo was tag-teaming with Flair against Hulk Hogan and Kevin Nash when Eric Bischoff threw a bucketfull of bleach in Mongo's face.
www.karmaswrestlingretro.com /mongo.html   (1218 words)

  
 newtimesbpb.com | News | The Alien Has Landed
But when Mongo sleeps, he does it on a little mat in the family room, like a poverty-stricken college student.
When I'd first met Mongo the week before, his hair was grayish and seemed to have some kind of oil in it.
Mongo looks to be in his 50s, but he says he's 333 years old.
www.newtimesbpb.com /Issues/2006-01-19/news/norman.html   (603 words)

  
 Blazing Saddles (1974)
A loud rumbling noise announces the unleashing of the dreaded Mongo in the town, riding a white, sharp-horned, brahma bull or ox (with a red YES on his left flank, and a red NO on his right flank).
Mongo is scolded, by a man on horseback, for illegally 'parking' his animal on the wrong hitching post.
Mongo knocks out the man's horse with a single, bare-fisted punch and then storms into the saloon - breaking off the two swinging doors with his entry.
www.filmsite.org /blaz.html   (2544 words)

  
 prohibitive!
Mongo: Maybe the best superhero for San Francisco would be "The Obsessive Hipster", who attacks his foe The Unconsidered Life with great gusto and verve as he drives useless topics deep into the earth with his ceaseless barrage of barely-educated musings!
Mongo: All this talk of the U.S. federal government spying on its own citizens has me thinking that Yakov Smirnoff is totally going to be able to rekindle his national stand-up career: "In GOP America, telephone answers you!"
Mongo: I'm not sure what the character's name is. Anyway, there are a lot of blind characters in comic books.
www.speakeasy.org /~prohibit   (1325 words)

  
 All about Mongo and Tard
The gas gauge was on E and Mongo had forgotten his wallet.
Sure, Mongo's wife had to drive an hour to pick us up but it was sooo worth it.
Mongo use to live in northeastern Illinois but has moved his whole hillbilly clan back to the mother land in Indiana.
www.mongoandtard.com /About_Us/About_M_T.htm   (468 words)

  
 MONGO User's Guide
MONGO has reasonable defaults for each device that can be selected, and consequently the user generally does not need to change the location of the graphics area.
MONGO is capable of directing output to a number of different plotting devices, but it sends output to only one device at a time.
MONGO allows the graphics area to be a rectangle of any size and location (these are defined by specifying the location of the lower left and upper right corner in device coordinates).
www.lowell.edu /users/koehn/mongodoc.html   (14158 words)

  
 VH1.com : Mongo Santamaria : Biography
A Mongo Santamaria concert is a mesmerizing spectacle for both eyes and ears, and even in his seventies, this seemingly ageless Cuban percussionist/bandleader could
A performer at the Tropicana Club in Havana, Mongo traveled to Mexico City with a dance team in 1948 and then moved to New York City in 1950, where he made his American debut with Pérez Prado and spent six years trading percussive barrages with Tito Puente and performing and recording with Cal Tjader (1957-1960).
Mongo's first significant recordings in America were made in 1958 for Fantasy; his second Fantasy album, Mongo (1959), contained a composition called "Afro-Blue," which quickly became a Latin jazz standard, taken up by John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and others.
www.vh1.com /artists/az/santamaria_mongo/bio.jhtml   (453 words)

  
 I Love Trash - New York Times
By definition, somebody must have thought it was worthless, but there's plenty of mongo that wouldn't be spurned on ''Antiques Roadshow.'' Mongo can be literally concrete (decorative slabs from old buildings) or it can be as abstract as the identities foragers steal from discarded computers.
And in ''Mongo: Adventures in Trash,'' Ted Botha explains why: ''The combination of wealth, residents living at close quarters, and the fact that so much gets thrown away out of lack of space, sheer laziness, ignorance or wastefulness means there's lots of mongo and it's easy to reach.''
Each of his book's 10 chapters is devoted to a different type of mongo hunter, from pack rats who stockpile almost anything to specialists in museum-quality architectural relics.
query.nytimes.com /gst/fullpage.html?res=9502E7DC1430F933A15755C0A9629C8B63   (599 words)

  
 Thrasher Magazine: Mongo intervention: how to save your friends from a lifetime of stank foot - Brief Article
An intervention can break through denial and create a moment of clarity for the mongo-footer; it can open the door to treatment and help victims begin rebuilding their pushing technique, as well as their lives.
It's a carefully planned process based on a solid foundation of trust, as well as a common distaste for mongoism and the aesthetic damage this disease wreaks on its victim's skate style.
Interventions are typically held at the home of the afflicted, although you might also choose such "neutral" places as a church, a counselor's office, or out behind a dumpster.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m0JSE/is_2002_July/ai_87129697   (426 words)

  
 Word Spy - mongo   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
The most surprising mongo hunter is Iver Iversen, an expert in historical restoration who spends a good portion of his free time climbing into dumpsters parked outside Upper East Side town houses under renovation.
Each chapter examines a different category of mongo seeker, from pack rats and preservationists to voyeurs and visionaries, whom Botha befriends and accompanies on their mostly nocturnal routes.
Other exhibits at the gallery were a 1,500-square-foot transparent map showing the locations of Sanitation Department offices; three piles of televisions on which videotapes of sanitation workers were shown, and an old, department-section office furnished in ''mongo,'' discarded furniture salvaged by sanitation men.
www.wordspy.com /words/mongo.asp   (293 words)

  
 Ted Botha - Books, Mongo, Adventures in Trash, Apartheid in my Rucksack   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
Mongo, according to the Cassell Dictionary of Slang, is New York lingo for any discarded object that is retrieved.
This book is a record of my travels among the collectors, who are as varied as the kind of mongo they seek.
The myriad reasons for collecting open a window into the range of human desires: some people collect for fun, others to make a living; some to find friends, others to snoop; some to make a political statement, others because it is an addiction.
www.tedbotha.com /books.htm   (650 words)

  
 Music: Latin Soul (The Boston Phoenix . 09-11-00)
What's as interesting is that Mongo was, in the 1950s, the conga player for Cal Tjader, and the two of them set the standard for what might be called Latin soul that's unmatched to this day.
Born and raised in Cuba, Mongo first came to prominence as a solo artist in 1963, when he rocked the charts with "Watermelon Man," Herbie Hancock's greatest composition, for a small indie label.
Although Columbia was happy to have Mongo jingling the cash register with this excellently underrated stuff, it never released the roots album that really let him roam free.
weeklywire.com /ww/current/boston_music_5.html   (642 words)

  
 Drummerworld: Mongo Santamaria
Mongo Santamaria, an internationally renown percussionist, died on February 1st 2003 at a hospital in Miami.
Santamaria's propulsive skill as a conguero was a trademark of more than four decades of recording and performing, and punctuates his classic 1963 cover of Herbie Hancock's "Watermelon Man," an unlikely, pre-Beatles hit in 1963 that hit Number Ten on the pop charts.
Fusing the Latin rhythms that were practically his birthright with Americanized styles like RandB and jazz, Santamaria made his first recordings as a bandleader in the late Fifties with Yambu and Mongo.
www.drummerworld.com /drummers/Mongo_Santamaria.html   (395 words)

  
 mongo - Search Results - MSN Encarta
Between 1600 and 1800 the Boma and southwestern Mongo chiefdoms reached eastward to the lake....
Beti, Mongo, born in 1932, Cameroonian novelist and political essayist, whose works examine Africa’s transition from a traditional to a modern...
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ca.encarta.msn.com /mongo.html   (66 words)

  
 Dr. Mongo
Mongo is short for Dr. Montague B. Gourley, who's degree is in filmology from the Millard Film-More Film School.
Here, Dr. Mongo, with the help of his lab assistant Quiso, would be able to show the finest films known to man,...right after he cleans out the film vault in the basement and shows all the schlock!
Mongo's Midnight Movie began late Friday nights at 12:30AM (actually very early Saturday morning if you want to be technical!) on WNAC Fox 64 from November 1991 to September 1992.
myweb.wvnet.edu /~u0e53/drmongo.html   (745 words)

  
 WPI Electrical and Computer Engineering - Mongo
Mongo is a program originally written in FORTRAN which can generate 2 and 3 dimensional graphics from data points.
Mongo has the following screen drivers: Retrographics 640, DEC VT125/240 (Regis), Tektronix 4010/4014, Grinnell 270, HP 2648A, and Sun Windows.
Mongo can be invoked in three different modes: Interactive, Interpretive, subroutine call, which are all described in a manual in AK120c.
www.ece.wpi.edu /Resources/Computers/mongo.html   (314 words)

  
 Heyday Skateboarding | Learn How To Push On A Skateboard - How To Ride   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
You may have already heard of skating mongo and of some of the arguments between mongo and non-mongo skaters.
So, just in case you are pushing mongo, I'll demonstrate the wrong and correct way to push and give you some reasons for switching if you already push mongo.
A person skates mongo if they use their leading foot (the foot that is in the front while riding) to push.
www.hdskate.com /skateboarding-trick-tips.php?trick_tip=40   (573 words)

  
 The Mongo Mind-Set
The discipline of surgical spine care is rife with examples of the "Mongo Mind-Set" where surgical procedures reflecting poor understanding of the subject, combined with a immense urge to exercise often ill-advised surgical prowess can result in creating more problems-than-benefits for patients.
Although it was Walter Dandy who first described the herniated lumbar disc in 1929 credit for this discovery was given to Mixter and Barr in 1934 when the medical profession subsequently became fixated with disc herniation (to the exclusion of other pathophysiologic entities).
With appropriate non-surgical treatment the Burton Experience has been that few of the types of patients shown above require surgical intervention and, when surgery becomes necessary, it should be as minimally invasive as possible thus reflecting modern surgical advances and appropriate to the patient's actual needs.
www.burtonreport.com /InfHealthCare/MongoMindSet.htm   (681 words)

  
 George Chesbro Interview
I've written extensively on the birth of Mongo, including in the introduction to IN THE HOUSE OF SECRET ENEMIES.
I gave Mongo dignity, and in return he gave me a career.
The first Mongo books, the mysterious press run, and the new ones as well.
www.mysteryone.com /GeorgeChesbroInterview.htm   (1145 words)

  
 Bowerbird Mongo, Ypsilanti
Bowerbird Mongo is far more than your typical antique shop; it's a collection of wonderful treasures that have many years of beauty, functionality and enjoyment left in them.
We purchase items that our imaginations tell us might be found in a museum of antiquity in the distant future.
These beautiful accent pieces will enhance the ambience of even the most modern homes and add a warmth and charm that only treasures from the past can bring.
www.bowerbirdmongo.com   (197 words)

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