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St. Mark O. Williams
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Bill Sorro
Bill Sorro (1939-2007) was a longtime housing rights advocate and community leader in San Francisco. He is best known for his leadership in the fight to save the International Hotel in San Francisco's former Manilatown. Although the building was torn down in 1977, through Sorro's longtime advocacy, a new I-Hotel was built and operates today as low-income housing and a Filipino American cultural center.
Sorro was born in San Francisco, grew up in the Fillmore District, and graduated from Balboa High School. A dancer, he performed with the Performing Arts Workshop until a trip to Cuba revolutionized him.
He is survived by sons Django Valledor of Modesto, Jordon Alexander of Hayward, and Desu, Giulio and Joaquin Sorro, all of San Francisco; daughters Daphne Sorro and Danae McLaughlin, both of Los Gatos; 13 grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.
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http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/09/26/BA7QSB68M.DTL
http://www.kqed.org/topics/history/heritage/apa/heroes-bsorro.jsp
http://www.kqed.org/w/americanfamily/sorro.html
http://www.calhum.org/programs/story_sorro.htm
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Sargon Donabed
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Corbanism
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Seized Of Darkness
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Mr. Undressum
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Joseph Sayah
Master Joe Sayah is a practitioner in Traditional Wing Chun Kung Fu and is a Red Sash. He has been training for over 24 years.
Birth
Master Joe Sayah was born in Melbourne, Australia on October 19th, 1972. [1]
Martial Arts Training
Master Joe began training Wing Chun Kung Fu at age 9 under Grand Master William Cheung. When he was 17, Master Joe became a certified instructor under Grandmaster Cheung. Since then he has gone on to open schools in the United States in Los Angeles, before moving back to his birth-country to open a school in Dandenong, Victoria where he teaches Traditional Wing Chun. He is currently Wing Chun's youngest red sash Master.[2]
Completed Training
Joe has Completed the Iron Palm and Iron Shin training programs along with his other studies.[3]
Competitions
Master Joe, at age 22, competed in K1 kickboxing and Cage no-holds-barred matches.[4]
Notable Work
Master Joe has worked as a bodyguard for foreign presidents, members of the entertainment industry and high profile business executives.
He has conducted numerous seminars with armed forces and law enforcement agencies including the U.S. Navy Seals, C.I.A., F.B.I., and local police departments.[5]
Movies
Master Joe has starred in a number of Hong Kong movies including Jackie Chan's Mr. Nice Guy, and Jet Li's Once Upon A Time In China And America [6] where he played the main villain.
He also assisted Sammo Hung in the choreography of the final fight scenes between Jet Li and himself, which lasted eight minutes on screen.
Magazines
He has also been featured in some magazine publications including “Inside Kung Fu”, “Blitz”, “Blackbelt” and “Ralph”.
Timeline
- 2004 Received Wing Chun Kung Fu "Master of the Year" Award from U.S Martial Arts Hall Of Fame
- 2000 founded Santa Monica Location, Los Angeles
- 2001 opened Encino Location, Los Angeles
- 2003 opened Granada Hills Location, Los Angeles
- 2006 opened Headquarters in Dandenong, Melbourne, Australia
References
Sources
- (IMDB is not a reliable source.) - Ariel♥Gold
The Lees of Laughter's End
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The Lees of Laughter's End
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Steve Bradley | |
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Born | Boston, Massachusetts, United States | December 10, 1975
Professional wrestling career | |
Ring name(s) | "MoFo" Steve Bradley |
Billed height | 6 ft 2 in (1.88 m) |
Billed weight | [undue weight? – discuss] |
Trained by | Les Thatcher Tom Prichard |
Debut | 1991 |
Steve Bradley is an American professional wrestler who has competed on North American independent promotions throughout the 1990s including East Coast Wrestling Association, IWA Puerto Rico and the National Wrestling Alliance as well as spending over three years World Wrestling Entertainment developmental territories including Power Pro Wrestling, Heartland Wrestling Association, Memphis Championship Wrestling and Ohio Valley Wrestling.
He is also the owner and head trainer of the Top Rope Wrestling Academy [1], a leading wrestling school in the New England area whose graduates include Alex Arion, Antonio Thomas, Brandon Locke, Matt Spectro, Scott Reed and Nikki Rox.
Early career and Power Pro Wrestling
At the age of 15, Bradley made his professional debut in 1991 becoming a mainstay of various East Coast promotions during the 1990s. In 1998, Bradley signed a 3-year developmental contract with the World Wrestling Federation and began training under Tom Prichard at WWF Headquarters in Stamford, Connecticut with Kurt Angle. [2]
Assigned to Memphis-based Power Pro Wrestling, both he and Angle began feuding with each other over the PPW Heavyweight title eventually defeating Angle for the title in early 1999 and becoming the first man to pin Angle in his professional career. Their feud would also be voted "Underrated Feud of the Year" by Pro Wrestling Illustrated that same year.
In March 1999, he won the third annual ECWA Super 8 Tournament defeating Christopher Daniels in the finals.
He later feuded with Vic Grimes defeating him for the PPW Young Guns title on July 19, although he lost the PPW Heavyweight title to Grimes on September 18 before regaining it a week later on September 25, 1999.
World Wrestling Federation
After the WWF ended their developmental agreement with Power Pro Wrestling, Bradley was brought into IWA Puerto Rico where he feuded with Savio Vega and won the IWA Tag Team titles three times with "Lone Wolf" Andy Anderson. [3]
He was eventually assigned to Memphis Championship Wrestling, a new developmental territory, in early 2001 and began wrestling with Essa Rios and Lita on WWF house shows and dark matches on television tapings throughout the United States. [4] He appeared at WrestleMania X-Seven to take part in Wrestlemania Excess.
Spending the next two years in Ohio Valley Wrestling and the Heartland Wrestling Association, Bradley would win the HWA Tag Team titles four times with Val Venis and Lance Cade [5] and eventually became involved in booking for the promotion before he was released from his developmental contract in July 2002. [6]
Championships and accomplishments
- East Coast Wrestling Association
- ECWA Super 8 Tournament (1998) [7]
- IWA Puerto Rico
- IWA World Tag Team Championship (3 times) with "Lone Wolf" Andy Anderson [8]
- Heartland Wrestling Association
- HWA Tag Team Championship (4 times) with Val Venus and Lance Cade (3) [9]
- Memphis Championship Wrestling
- Power Pro Wrestling
- PWI ranked him # 83 of the 500 best singles wrestlers of the PWI 500 in 2002
References
- ^ "Top Rope Pro Wrestling Academy: Head Trainer Steve Bradley". Archived from the original on 2007-07-24.
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- ^ Oliver, Greg (2001-08-28). "The Lone Wolf in the Puerto Rican war, Canada's Andy Anderson succeeding in the IWA". SLAM! Sports.
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(help) - ^ Dumas, Amy and Michael Krugman. Lita: A Less Traveled R.O.A.D.--The Reality of Amy Dumas. New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003. ISBN 0-7434-7399-X (pg. 141)
- ^ Milner, John H. (2005-09-15). "Bios: Lance Cade". SLAM! Sports.
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(help) - ^ "I.W.A. World Tag Team Title". Puroresu Dojo. 2003.
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External links
- Profile at Online World of Wrestling
- CageMatch.de - Steve Bradley
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Blastodisc
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Bass River is a small farming and lumbering community found in Weldford Parish, Kent County, New Brunswick, Canada and also one of the many rivers contributing fresh water to the Richibucto Estuary which forms an important part of the Northumberland Strait's eco-system and helps create the magnificient sand dune beaches at nearby Kouchiboucquac National Park and Bouctouche. Bass River is best known for many bass and as prime habitat for the mighty atlantic salmon. Bass River is also home of Krista Betts, student at Bonar Law Memorial High School and winner of the 2005 Gold Medal for Women's Wrestling at the Canada Games along with Stacy Smallwood who won the bronze medal for Women's Wrestling at the 2005 Canada Games.
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http://bassriver.wildheartofkent.com
http://www.gnb.ca/cnb/news/cg/2005e1426cs.htm
http://www.bouctouche.org/index-e.html
(RON WARD/TIMES & TRANSCRIPT)Krista Betts of Bass River displays her gold medal that she won at the Canada Games in Regina last week in the 40kg wrestling competition. Krista, along with three other Bass River area athletes, were honored in Bass River last night.
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Big Dick Johnson is a large caucasian male of unknown age, who appears in WWE wrestling, often in a humorous capacity. He mostly wears only a very progressively cut european men's bathing shorts. He is notable for being very fat and happy and wearing very little on a television program, and having an outgoing sexual/playful demeanor, in defiance of the cultural norm that dictates very fat people should be highly modest or ashamed.
Although his very appearance is entertaining to many fans, he is also employed in specific scenarios. When there is an expectation of a sexual display whether from male or female sometimes instead Big Dick Johnson is presented to confound that expectation or subvert it because Big Dick Johnson is overweight in contrast to the leaner physique of the average wrestler. Yet as seen in the bachlorette skit on Tuesday he has a joyful energy so that Kristal ended up dancing with him, wearing her flimsy nightgown and even grinding on him. He often squirts himself with oil to give him a shiny appearance. In some ways he is reminescent of the dead comedian Chris Farley's chippendale dance character from Saturday Night Live, but there is no savage nihilism to Big Dick Johnson, he is always smiling. There are many youtube videos of Big Dick Johnson moments.
Once JR had Big Dick Johnson dress as a rival football fan to appease a crowd angry about a football loss. It is not clear if Big Dick Johnson was appearing then as Big Dick Johnson or simply as a generic kind of target for JR to rail against, like a scapegoat. Big Dick Johnson did not on that occasion become naked nor dance nor oil himself.
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External link that links to video (copyright issues) removed by Ariel - linked to video and also per WP:EL, video links are not encouraged, as not all users have video software.
Man no video? That is tough since we are in a video age. But it is your encyclopedia.
Here is his IMDB listing, although it is incomplete; he has appeared as Big Dick Johnson near 20 times on TV now.http://www.imdb.com/name/nm2057866/
Here is his tv.com listing, although it only mentions his recent appearences, not the 2006 era ones
http://www.tv.com/christopher-dejoseph/person/453123/summary.html
- Note from Ariel: IMDB and tv.com are not reliable sources.
Here are text articles about naming him... for many years he flew under the radar and the WWE did not officially name his character.
http://www.wrestlingepicenter.com/articles/161905348.shtml
Here is where Kristal danced with him wearing her attractive thin-material nightgown
http://slam.canoe.ca/Slam/Wrestling/2007/09/15/4498995.html
http://pwtorch.com/artman2/publish/TV_Reports_9/article_22829.shtml
And here is from when he dressed as a crazy oily baby!
http://www.prowrestling.com/article/results/1173
http://www.wrestlingattitude.com/smackdown-2007-08-17.php
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Piedmont Plantation: Robert Worthington House; National Register of Historical Places
Robert Worthington House is also known as Piedmont Plantation, Quarry Banks-New Style, and Dick's Plantation. It is located in Jefferson County, West Virginia.