In 1950, the NBA consolidated to eleven franchises, a process that continued until 1953 – 54, when the league reached its smallest size of eight franchises, all of which are still in the league ( the New York Knicks, Boston Celtics, Golden State Warriors, Los Angeles Lakers, Royals / Kings, Detroit Pistons, Atlanta Hawks, and Nationals / 76ers ).

* Golden Hawks ( Royal Canadian Air Force )

The Golden Age of the Western film is epitomized by the work of two directors: John Ford and Howard Hawks ( both of whom often used John Wayne in lead roles ).

Falcons, skuas, and Buteos like Rough-legged Hawks ( B. lagopus ), which are normally fierce competitors with each other, have worked together to group-mob Golden Eagles that have passed their adjacent nesting areas.

* Vanier Cup – Alberta Golden Bears won 20 – 7 over the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks

* Vanier Cup – Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks win 25-18 over the Mount Allison Mounties

* Vanier Cup – Queen's Golden Gaels won 42 – 14 over the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks

* Vanier Cup – St. Francis Xavier X-Men win 40-14 over the Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks

They also compete directly for lemmings and other prey with several predators, including Rough-legged Hawks, Golden Eagles, Peregrine Falcons, Gyrfalcons, jaegers, Glaucous Gulls, Short-eared Owls, Great Horned Owls, Eurasian Eagle Owls, Common Ravens, wolves, arctic foxes, and ermine.

However, the team still was unable to get out of the first stage, as the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles ousted the Hawks in a 2-game sweep.

Canadair Sabre in the colours of the Golden Hawks, on display at the Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum, Mount Hope, Ontario

The Snowbirds continue the flying demonstration tradition of previous Canadian air force aerobatic teams, which include the Siskins, the Blue Devils, the Golden Hawks, and the Golden Centennaires.

During the same ceremony the team was presented the 1999 Golden Hawks Award by the Air Force Association of Canada for outstanding performance in the field of Canadian military aviation.

Adults rarely fall prey to larger raptors, namely Red-tailed Hawks, Great Horned Owls, Peregrine Falcons, Golden Eagles, and Northern Goshawks.

Territorial conflicts have been reported with other species, such as the Great Horned and Short-eared Owl, Northern Harrier, Red-tailed and Swainson's Hawks, Golden Eagle, accipiters, ravens, and magpies.

* Vanier Cup – St. Francis Xavier X-Men win 40 – 14 over the Waterloo Lutheran Golden Hawks

the Saskatchewan Huskies vs. the Golden Hawks at the 2005 Vanier Cup.

The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks is the name used by the varsity sports teams of Wilfrid Laurier University in Waterloo, Ontario, Canada.

Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks teams compete in:

The Wilfrid Laurier Golden Hawks football team has appeared in five Vanier Cup championships, losing in 1966, 1968 and 1972, and winning the national title in 1991 and 2005.

The Golden Hawks have had one Hec Crighton Trophy winner, Bill Kubas, a former quarterback who won the award in 1994.

The Golden Hawks had seven straight seasons of at least six wins between 2003 and 2009, but are coming off of back-to-back. 500 seasons in 2010 and 2011.

Kon Ichikawa directed two anti-war dramas: The Burmese Harp ( 1956 ), which was nominated for Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards, and Fires On The Plain ( 1959 ), along with Enjo ( 1958 ), which was adapted from Yukio Mishima's novel Temple Of The Golden Pavilion.

* Laurel Awards 1959: Golden Laurel for Best Leading Actress in a musical film for Gigi

* 1959 The Golden Fish-Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Astaire played the role of Julian Osborne in the 1959 movie On the Beach and was nominated a Golden Globe Best Supporting Actor award for his performance, losing to Stephen Boyd in Ben Hur.

* Edwin W. Rawlings ( 1904 – 1997 ) – Born in Milroy, he served in the United States Air Force from 1929 to 1959, rising to the rank of four-star general ; after his retirement from military service, he went on to become president and board chairman of General Mills, based in Golden Valley, Minnesota.

* All Star Jazz IV: The Golden Age of Jazz ( January 4, 1959 )

* The Golden Age of Quackery ( 1959 )

This was Carney's only Twilight Zone appearance but, nearly two years earlier, on January 22, 1959, he starred in Rod Serling's semi-autobiographical story, " The Velvet Alley ", the eighth of ten Serling teleplays featured on Playhouse 90, the most prestigious of the many live drama anthology series from the Golden Age of Television.

* Golden Globe: Winner 1959 World Film Favorite: Male actor

The Golden Age of Mexican cinema is the name given to the period between 1935 and 1959 where the quality and economic success of the cinema of Mexico reached its peak.

In 1958, Nelson recorded his first number one single, " Poor Little Fool ", and, in 1959, received a Golden Globe " Most Promising Male Newcomer " nomination after starring in Rio Bravo.

He later made The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ), which portrayed the prohibited subject of drug abuse, and Anatomy of a Murder ( 1959 ), which dealt with murder and rape.

This occurred on the 23 May 1959 on the Stephenson Locomotive Society Golden Jubilee special when 60007 achieved 112 mph whilst hauling 400 tons down Stoke Bank.

* Golden Globes: Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture Actress-Drama, Susan Hayward ; 1959

* Golden Globes: Golden Globe, Best Motion Picture-Drama ; Best Motion Picture Director, Robert Wise ; 1959.

Factory CD, originally released in 1959 on Golden Records

Vaughn's first notable appearance was in The Young Philadelphians ( 1959 ) for which he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture.

He is best known for Orfeu Negro ( Black Orpheus ), which won the Golden Palm at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

He directed nearly a dozen films, including Orfeu Negro ( also known as Black Orpheus ), which won the Golden Palm at the 1959 Cannes Film Festival and the 1960 Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film

Apart from Ginsberg's seven collections, a number of the early Pocket Poets volumes brought out by Ferlinghetti have attained the status of classics, including True Minds by Marie Ponsot ( 1957 ), Here and Now by Denise Levertov ( 1958 ), Gasoline ( 1958 ) by Gregory Corso, Selected Poems by Robert Duncan ( 1959 ), Lunch Poems ( 1964 ) by Frank O ' Hara, Selected Poems ( 1967 ) by Philip Lamantia, Poems to Fernando ( 1968 ) by Janine Pommy Vega, Golden Sardine ( 1969 ) by Bob Kaufman, and Revolutionary Letters ( 1971 ) by Diane di Prima.

* Prospects of a Golden Age ( 1959 )

She also appeared in Picnic ( 1955 ), The Man with the Golden Arm ( 1955 ), Pal Joey ( 1957 ), Middle of the Night ( 1959 ), The Notorious Landlady ( 1962 ), and Kiss Me, Stupid ( 1964 ).

* Holbrook, Stewart A., The Golden Age of Quackery, ( Boston: MacMillan & Co., 1959 )