Contenders for the smallest public house in the UK include:

Contenders for the title of " first rock and roll record " include Goree Carter's " Rock Awhile " ( 1949 ); Jimmy Preston's " Rock the Joint " ( 1949 ), which was later covered by Bill Haley & His Comets in 1952 ; and " Rocket 88 " by Jackie Brenston and his Delta Cats ( actually an alias for Ike Turner and his band The Kings of Rhythm ), recorded by Sam Phillips for Sun Records in March 1951.

Contenders for the honor were Cheney and Spokan Falls ( now Spokane ).

Some companies that are notable for making these cards are Topps, Upper Deck, Fleer, Donruss, Bowman ( which is a descendent of Topps ), and Playoff Contenders.

Contenders scored points for every second left on the clock when they finished the course ; the contender with the highest final score won the day's competition.

Contenders that lost in the semi-final rounds were guaranteed $ 2, 500 for advancing that far.

Still the title for the antagonistic faction the Decepticons could mean Deceptive Contenders as some fans have come to debate, yet this has not been explained in either of the existing Transformers lines, leaving the meaning of the antagonists title to be open to interpretation for the time being.

Gem, Michael Chesters ( aka Chess Chesters, and older brother of Eds Chesters of The Bluetones ) and Jeff moved to London and formed The Contenders in early 1987, playing at the Bull & Gate in Kentish Town and other venues, often with friends 2 Lost Sons, who at that time were a three piece using Roland 808 and 909 drum machines for their live act.

After The Contenders split, Chess joined the 2 Lost Sons as drummer which laid the foundations for Heavy Stereo, with Gem taking over the role of singer from Pete Downing's Buddy Holly look-a-like brother Phil.

The film Series 7: The Contenders features a music video for the song which characters explain as being part of a school project.

The movie is presented as a marathon of the seventh series of an American reality television show called The Contenders, where six people, picked at random from a national lottery, are each given a gun and forced to hunt and kill each other for the cameras.

In February 2003, Barton and Steele entered a # 1 Contenders tournament for the IWGP Tag Team Championship.

He guest starred twice on Bewitched in 1964 and 1967 and played a lead role in the two-part The Contenders episodes for the Mission: Impossible series in 1968.

They provided music for the soundtrack to the film Series 7: The Contenders, and one song for the soundtrack to the 1994 film Clerks.

The Gemini Contenders is a 1976 novel by Robert Ludlum.

On the August 1 episode of Raw, Perez participated in a # 1 Contenders Divas Battle Royal and was the first participant eliminated but it was won by Beth Phoenix.

Series 7: The Contenders is a 2001 film directed by Daniel Minahan.

On September 27 episode of Raw Hall participated in a # 1 Contenders Divas Battle Royal which was won by Natalya.

* Series 7: The Contenders ( 2001 ) is a film about a reality show in which contestants have to kill each other to win.

* " Thomas E. Dewey, Presidential Contender " from C-SPAN's The Contenders

In the episode " Contenders " of the television series Numb3rs, Charlie Eppes tries to find an opponent's tell before he plays in a Texas Hold ' em game.

Contenders included rhet, exclarotive, and exclamaquest, but he settled on interrobang.

Contenders Lucian Anderson and Cheryl Ann Silich emerged victorious, beating out Terry Moore and Aimee Ross, respectively.

Gem's Contenders stage outfit was a black boiler suit with " THE CONTENDERS " written down the side in large white type.

When Whirlpool split in the early 90s, Archer graduated to singer, principal songwriter and guitarist status with Contenders ( The Contenders split in the late ' 80s, before Whirlpool formed ) and then with Creation Records signing Heavy Stereo, a glam-rock sounding band that he formed with bassist Nez and guitarist Pete Downing of fellow Bull & Gate regulars 2 Lost Sons.

On July 19, 2011, they released the compilation album Top Contenders: The Best of Strung Out.

That group evolved into a surf band called the Contenders, then changed its name to the New Breed.

It would be fine publicity for the man who was willing to walk to the mayor's throne over the broken reputation of a helpless girl!!

Alp Arslan defeated Kutalmish for the throne and succeeded on 27 April 1064 as sultan of Great Seljuq, and thus became sole monarch of Persia from the river Oxus to the Tigris.

Suleiman ibn Kutalmish was the son of the contender for Arslan's throne ; he was appointed governor of the north-western provinces and assigned to completing invasion of Anatolia.

His revenge was to trap her in a magic throne, and then to demand Aphrodite's hand in return for Hera's release.

However, since some feel that being the children of the main characters is too limiting, it is fairly common to either start with King Oberon's death before the book begins and roleplay the Elder Amberites as they vie for the throne ; or to populate Amber from scratch with a different set of Elder Amberites.

* 1258 – Regent George Mouzalon and his brothers are killed during a coup headed by the aristocratic faction under, paving the way for its leader, Michael VIII Palaiologos, to ultimately usurp the throne of the Empire of Nicaea.

Agrippina deprived Britannicus of his heritage and further isolated him from his father and succession for the throne in every way possible.

Claudius later repented of marrying Agrippina and adopting Nero, began to favor Britannicus, and started preparing him for the throne.

These assassinations secured the throne for Maximinus

Alexios IV Angelos, the son of the deposed Isaac II, had recently escaped from Constantinople and now appealed to the crusaders, promising to end the schism of East and West, to pay for their transport, and to provide military support to the crusaders if they helped him to depose his uncle and sit on his father's throne.

Later, however, Alexios III arranged for his new son-in-law to be ambushed and blinded, making him ineligible for the imperial throne.

Victorian writers interpreted this as an anticipatory coronation in preparation for his ultimate succession to the throne of Wessex.

Now queen, Amalasuntha made her cousin Theodahad partner of her throne ( not, as sometimes stated, her husband, for his wife was still living ), with the intent of strengthening her position.

His earliest years were passed in the monastery of Siresa, learning to read and write and to practice the military arts until the tuition of Lope Garcés the Pilgrim, who was repaid for his services by his former charge with the county of Pedrola when Alfonso came to the throne.

A series of deaths put Alfonso directly in line for the throne.

* 238 – Year of the Six Emperors: The Roman Senate outlaws emperor Maximinus Thrax for his bloodthirsty proscriptions in Rome and nominates two of its members, Pupienus and Balbinus, to the throne.

Andrew made preparations for a war against Austria, but the child king died on 7 May 1205, thus Andrew inherited the throne.

He resolved to suppress many abuses, but above all things, to check feudalism and limit the power of the nobles, who were rivals for his throne.

During the civil war following the death of Eric III of Denmark in 1146, Absalon travelled abroad to study theology in Paris, while Esbern fought for Valdemar's ascension to the throne.

The Act of Settlement provided that the throne would pass to the Electress Sophia of Hanover – a granddaughter of James VI of Scotland and I of England, niece of Charles I of Scotland and England – and her Protestant descendants who had not married a Roman Catholic ; those who were Roman Catholic, and those who married a Roman Catholic, were barred from ascending the throne " for ever ".

* If a person not native to England comes to the throne, England will not wage war for " any dominions or territories which do not belong to the Crown of England, without the consent of Parliament.

Norman Spector called, in The Globe and Mail, for Prime Minister Stephen Harper to address the issue of the act's bar on Catholics, saying that Phillips ' marriage to Kelly would be the first time the provisions of the act would bear directly on Canada – Phillips would be barred from acceding to the Canadian throne because he married a Roman Catholic Canadian.

More recently, for example, it was claimed by A. A. Kovalyov as the residence of Lu Fang ( 盧芳 ), a Han throne pretender from the Guangwu era.