Inspired by an advertisement he saw while riding an elevated train in New York City ( a shoe store boasting " 21 styles "), Heinz picked the number more or less at random because he liked the sound of it, selecting 7 specifically because, as he put it, of the " psychological influence of that figure and of its enduring significance to people of all ages.

Inspired by an advertisement he saw while riding an elevated train in New York City ( a shoe store boasting " 21 styles "), Heinz picked the number more or less at random because he liked the sound of it, selecting 7 specifically because, as he put it, of the " psychological influence of that figure and of its enduring significance to people of all ages.

The madison is a conventional race but, since the innovation in New York, with riders in each team riding part of the distance, handing over to the other member, resting, and then returning to the race.

In Madison races ( named after six-day races at Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York and known as the American ), the team's relief rider rests above the Stayer ’ s line by riding slowly until his or her teammate comes around the track and throws him or her back into the race.

Anna Waller, a member of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the University of North Carolina, co-authored a four-year-long study of jockey injuries and stated to the New York Times that " For every 1, 000 jockeys you have riding one year, over 600 will have medically treated injuries.

In the film, York became a Christian after he was struck by lightning while riding his mule.

In the custody of York, the king was returned to London with York and Salisbury riding alongside, and with Warwick bearing the royal sword in front.

It offered telephone and telegraph offices, a livery stable, riding and bathing facilities, tennis courts, barbershop, billiards room, ballroom, sailing, fishing excursions and canoes for picnics up the York River.

The Duke of York riding in the carriage procession at Trooping the Colour, 16 June 2012

In his youth Burrows delivered mail on horseback, riding between New York and Philadelphia.

Among examples cited was the infamous 1948 Grey Cup game in which two trains of Stampeder football fans descended on Toronto and launched an unprecedented series of celebrations before, during and after the game that included riding a horse into the lobby of the Royal York Hotel.

Counties for lieutenancy purposes were also redefined as " a county at large, with the exception that each riding of the county of York shall be a separate county ".

If there was a riding surrounding the wapentake, the wapentake would merely be a local assembly coordinating the power of the Riding, which in Jorvik's case, would be under the king's command at what is now King's Square in York.

Mulock entered politics in 1881, unsuccessfully seeking the Liberal nomination in the then strongly Conservative federal riding of York North.

Unlike most English counties that were divided into hundreds, Yorkshire, being so large, was divided first into thrithjungar ( an Old Norse word meaning ' third parts '), which were called the three ridings ( East, North & West ) and, later, the City of York ( which lay within the city walls and was not part of any riding ).

The boisterous celebrations that followed the win gave rise to the legend of Calgary alderman and future mayor Don Mackay riding his horse into the lobby of the Royal York Hotel.

He ran in York County, a riding dominated by colonists of American extraction.

Earlier, on May 13, 2004, incumbent Art Eggleton announced that he would not run for re-election, paving the way for Dryden to contest the Toronto riding of York Centre.

It was his first professional race and he won the final heat by over A. C. Meixwell of Philadelphia and E. C. Bald, scratch rider representing Syracuse, New York, and riding a Barnes bicycle.

Cara penned the lyrics to the song with Keith Forsey while riding in a car in New York heading to the studio to record it ; Moroder composed the music.

Local Liberal Member of Parliament Bob Kaplan, who represented the riding in North York where the Government of Canada-owned de Havilland factory was located, was championing the idea of the island airport as the base for a network of airports serving STOL planes.

All government levels refer to the riding, or the ward in the case of the municipal government, as Beaches-East York.

Competitive endurance riding commenced in Australia in 1966, when the Tom Quilty Gold Cup was first held in the Hawkesbury district, near Sydney, New South Wales.

* Gary Mason, former British Heavyweight Champion Boxer, who lived in Wallington before his untimely death on Sandy Lane South whilst riding his bicycle, on 6 January 2011.

He initially opposed Canadian Medicare when it was proposed, but later endorsed it fully following NDP candidate Kenneth Bolton's upset by-election victory on the issue in the London-area riding of Middlesex South.

The trade mark is a symbol of its abundant outdoor activities, such as horseback riding, hiking, water sports, boating and the best freshwater fishing in the South.

Provincially, Timmins had been part of the Cochrane South riding, which existed from 1926 to 1999.

Gilles Bisson won the riding for the NDP in 1990 and served first as MPP for Cochrane South from 1990 to 1999 and then as MPP for Timmins-James Bay, from 1999 to present.

Running in the multi-member riding of Winnipeg South, he finished well ahead of the official Progressive Conservative candidate, and soon emerged as the leading voice for anti-coalition Tories in the province.

In the knockout stages, riding on the heroics of Oliver Kahn and Michael Ballack they produced three consecutive 1 – 0 wins against Paraguay, the United States, and co-hosts South Korea, setting up a final against Brazil, the first World Cup meeting between the two.

He grew up in an Irish Canadian family with nine brothers and sisters, with younger brother David representing the riding of Ottawa South in the Canadian House of Commons since 2004.

Dalton Jr. won the Ontario Liberal Party's nomination for Ottawa South for the provincial election of 1990, and was elected to the Legislative Assembly of Ontario as the MPP for his father's former riding.

He represented the riding of Winnipeg South in the Canadian House of Commons from 1993 to 2006 and was a cabinet minister in the government of Prime Minister Paul Martin.

The first was the proximity to South Downs, which was fully exploited to give opportunities to the boys for running wild, studying natural history, walking, picnics, riding and even golf on the adjacent links.

Visitors to the park can go horseback riding, mountain biking, fishing, and swimming in the South Fork Eel River.

The picturesque style Thatched or South Lodge is another of Devey's work, as is the former riding school with its stable yard – ( now a housing complex ).

* On South Park, the boys are often shown riding Big Wheels, particularly in the episodes " Chickenlover ", " Kenny Dies ", " The Jeffersons " and " Cartoon Wars ".

The town's Members of Parliament are Ryan Cleary, who was elected to the House of Commons in the 2011 federal election in the riding of St. John's South — Mount Pearl ; and incumbent Jack Harris, who represents St. John's East.

The first to succeed, in the 1898 election, was Ralph Smith, in the coal-mining riding of South Nanaimo.

Guthrie was first elected to the House of Commons as a Liberal in 1900 from the riding of Wellington South.

In 1997 Sgro's first attempt at Federal politics came up short when she tried to get elected in the riding of York South — Weston.

The riding was re-created in 1914 from parts of York Centre and York South when the county of York, including parts of the city of Toronto, was divided into four ridings: York North, South, East and West.

In the 2004 federal election, Earle ran in the riding of South Shore — St.

" He represented the provincial riding of York South in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1955 to 1982.

He returned to provincial politics and was elected again to the Ontario legislature in the 1919 provincial election as the MLA for the riding of Ontario South.