Two crews racing in River Lagan | Lagan Head of the River.

These processional races are known as Head Races, because, as with bumps racing, the fastest crew is awarded the title Head of the River ( as in " head of the class ").

* February 23 Chrysler's Second Generation HEMI racing engine ( 426 Cubic Inches with Hemispherical Head design ) debuts at the Daytona 500.

In 1979, Sega's Head On was a racing game that played like a maze chase game and is thus considered a precursor to the 1980 hit Pac-Man.

Heysham also had a large outdoor karting track on Heysham Head where racing legend Nigel Mansell used to race in his teenage years.

Image: Headofthecharles. jpg | Queen's University Belfast, a crew from Northern Ireland, racing in the Head of the Charles in 2003

Patrick Head was born into motor sport, his father Michael racing Jaguar sportscars in the 1950s, and was privately educated at Wellington College.

Finally becoming disillusioned by his lack of success Head quit motor racing to work on building boats.

More success followed in the 1980s and Head began to move away from designing the cars himself, effectively creating a role of Technical Director, a person who oversaw the processes of design, construction, racing and testing, bringing together all the different disciplines.

Ferrari ’ s Ross Brawn was not content with the situation, but Williams technical director Patrick Head remarked that, had Montoya been penalised, it would effectively have been a declaration that overtaking was no longer allowed in Formula One racing.

* Vernon Trophy — Presented in memory of the late Karl Vernon, the trophy was given to the Head by Vernon in 1954 and is made from the melted-down silver of trophies he won in his own racing career.

Two crews racing in River Lagan | Lagan Head of the River.

Although NCAA National Championships only provide races for the aforementioned varsity boats, head races and regattas such as Head of the Charles, Pac-10 Championships and others allow a wide variety of competition for less-prominent boat classifications such as pair, sculls, and lightweight racing.

Head trainer John Mason from Shoscombe Old Place, a racing stable in Berkshire, comes to Holmes concerned about the behavior his master, Sir Robert Norberton.

The term " Head of the River " has also been used for winning crews in regattas since the 19th century, such as the college bumps racing in Oxford or Cambridge.

This was loosely translated as Mikami claiming to " cut own head " and later parodied in God Hand, which featured a racing dog named " Mikami's Head ".

" Like his patron, Churchill, Tudor gave police posts to his military friends and colleagues: Brigadier-General Ormonde Winter, for example, became Deputy Police Adviser and Head of Intelligence ; " He had once been my Captain in a battery at Rawalpindi ," said Tudor, " and we had done a lot of racing together at various meetings in India.

To my knowledge, Lincoln remains the only Head of State and Commander-in-Chief who, while fighting a fearful war whose issue was in doubt, proved man enough to say this publicly -- to give his foe the benefit of the fact that in all human truth there is some error, and in all our error, some truth.

He was born at Ox Head, a small property on the Palatine Hill, very close to the Roman Forum.

At extremely rare intervals the thermometer has fallen below zero (- 18 ° C ), as was the case in the remarkable cold wave of the 12th-13 February 1899, when an absolute minimum of-17 ° F (- 29 ° C ) was registered at Valley Head.

Anne was particularly close to Emily especially after Charlotte's departure for Roe Head School, in January 1831.

Aged 15, it was Anne's first time away from home, and she made few friends at Roe Head.

Anne and Charlotte do not appear to have been close while at Roe Head ( Charlotte's letters almost never mention her ) but Charlotte was concerned about her sister's health.

Later, the station at Perano Head on the east coast of the island was used to hunt humpback whales from 1911 to 1964 ( see Whaling in New Zealand ).

" It concluded, among other things, that Head Start programs designed to boost African-American IQ scores had failed, and that this was likely never to be remedied, largely because, in Jensen's estimation, 80 % of the variance in IQ in the population studied was the result of genetic factors and the remainder was due to environmental influences.

The Head of Government under the new constitution is the Premier ( prior to the new constitution the office was referred to as Chief Minister ), who is elected in a general election along with the other members of the ruling government as well as the members of the opposition.

The Constitution stipulated that Australia was a constitutional monarchy, where the Head of State is the British ( or, since 1942, Australian ) monarch, who is represented at the federal level by a Governor-General, and at the state level by six Governors, one for each state.

The artwork for " Pineapple Head " was created by Reg Mombassa of Mental As Anything.

One of his few religious artworks was created in 1960, Christ Head, with an angular " Modiglianiesque " portrait of Jesus Christ.

Three years later he was appointed Head of the Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the teaching hospitals of the University of Cape Town.

Later, Yegor Ligachev was appointed as Head of the Party Organisational Work Department of the Central Committee.

An important early film to move beyond the concept of the scenic was In the Land of the Head Hunters ( 1914 ), which embraced primitivism and exoticism in a staged story presented as truthful re-enactments of the life of Native Americans.

Bowie was chosen to curate the 2007 High Line Festival, selecting musicians and artists for the Manhattan event, and performed on Scarlett Johansson's 2008 album of Tom Waits covers, Anywhere I Lay My Head.

At seventeen, Emily attended the Roe Head girls ' school, where Charlotte was a teacher, but managed to stay only three months before being overcome by extreme homesickness.

Thomas ' 1969 performance of " Raindrops Keep Fallin ' on My Head ", in which actual water was sprinkled on him as a special effect.

Nevertheless, Elizabeth was forced to accept the title of Supreme Governor of the Church of England rather than the more contentious title of Supreme Head, which many thought unacceptable for a woman to bear.

In attempting to arrest members of the Kent family in County Cork on 2 May, a Head Constable was shot dead in a gun battle.

It was eight years before he directed another theatrical film, A Hole in the Head ( 1959 ) with Frank Sinatra, which was his first feature film in color.

PG tips, Scottish Blend and Lyons teas are exported by Unilever UK & Ireland Export, based in Unilever UK & Ireland's Head Office Leatherhead, through a worldwide network of food distributors.

Head of state, Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom | Elizabeth II.

** Eight players from the 1950 team played for Head Coach John Longfellow as the United States ' Gold Medal Basketball team at the inaugural 1951 Pan-American Games.

The Policy and Resources Committee of the States of Jersey established the Constitutional Review Group in July 2005, chaired by Sir Philip Bailhache, with terms of reference ' to conduct a review and evaluation of the potential advantages and disadvantages for Jersey in seeking independence from the United Kingdom or other incremental change in the constitutional relationship, while retaining the Queen as Head of State '.

* 1960 – Ghana becomes a Republic and Kwame Nkrumah becomes its first President as Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom ceases to be its Head of state.

* 1953 – The coronation of Queen Elizabeth II, who is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Her Other Realms and Territories & Head of the Commonwealth, the first major international event to be televised.

West Quoddy Head is the easternmost piece of land in the contiguous 48 United States.

The oldest, and arguably most famous, head race is the Head of the River Race, founded by Steve Fairbairn in 1926 which takes place each March on the river Thames in London, United Kingdom.

The full style of Elizabeth II in the United Kingdom is, " Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith ".

The present Sovereign's full style and title is " Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God, of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland and of Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith ".

* February 6 – The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II marks the 60th anniversary of her accession to the thrones of the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and New Zealand, and the 60th anniversary of her becoming Head of the Commonwealth.

** In Head Automatica's song, " Graduation Day ", the music video foretold that in the year 2020, the goth girl who is graduating will become the President of the United States.

Valley Head is a town in DeKalb County, Alabama, United States.

According to the United Nations Convention against illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances, since Bouterse was convicted before his election as Head of State in 2010 he has no immunity.

Owls Head is a town in Knox County, Maine, United States.

In the 2000 United States Census, it was one of only 8 places with a population of five people ; the others were Storrie, California, Bear Head Lake, Minnesota, Baker, Missouri, Odell, New Hampshire, Maza, North Dakota, Somerset, Vermont, and Prudhoe Bay, Alaska.

Bay Head is a Borough in Ocean County, New Jersey, United States.

Cumberland Head is a census-designated place and region of the Town of Plattsburgh in Clinton County, New York, United States.

As of the United States 2010 Census, the population of Glen Head was 4, 697.

Glen Head recently ranked 43rd out of 500 in Forbes national listing for the United States 500 wealthiest zip codes.

Bald Head Island is a village located on the east side of the Cape Fear River in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States.

John Kerr, Baron Kerr of Kinlochard served as UK Ambassador to the United States from 1995-1997, before being appointed Head of the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office.

* Former United States Air Force Academy Head Football Coach Fisher DeBerry