The orbiter was lifted up on a sling very similar to the one used at Kennedy Space Center and placed inside the Dynamic Test Stand building, and there mated to the Vertical Mate Ground Vibration Test tank ( VMGVT-ET ), which in turn was attached to a set of inert Solid Rocket Boosters ( SRB ) to form a complete shuttle launch stack, and marked the first time in the program's history that all Space Shuttle elements, an Orbiter, an External Tank ( ET ), and two SRBs, were mated together.

Milligan had a small role as a postman named " Mate ", which was also the name of a Goon Show character.

Reuben James was a Boatswain's Mate who distinguished himself fighting the Barbary pirates.

The multiple Gold Cup winner Best Mate also hails from Ireland, while the great Red Rum was bred there, before moving across the Irish Sea to be trained.

This was explained in her first appearance in Archie's Pal, Jughead 84 as the result of Dilton's Electronic Mate Selector selecting Jughead as " the perfect mate for you ".

In June 1795 he was appointed Surgeon's Mate.

Fisher passed the seamanship examination for the rank of Lieutenant, and was given the acting rank of Mate, on his nineteenth birthday, 25 January 1860.

After 14 months aboard the Storis, Mature was promoted to the rate of Chief Boatswain's Mate.

Together with his wife he holds open days at his stables, with 5000 turning up to see their now legendary Cheltenham Gold Cup winner Best Mate, who was ridden to victory by Jim Culloty in 2002 and 2003.

Atlantis was towed to the Mate Demate Device by around 15: 00 PST.

The mating pattern " Boden's Mate " was named after the mate that occurred in one of his games, Schulder-Boden, London 1853.

* July 3 – United States Navy Lieutenant junior grade John K. Koelsch and his crewman, Aviation Mate Third Class George M. Neal, are shot down in an HO3S helicopter by enemy ground fire while trying to rescue United States Marine Corps Captain James V. Wilkins, who had been shot down behind enemy lines and was badly burned.

An initial settlement, called Londres, was established here by Spanish colonists in 1558 ; a permanent settlement was not founded until 1683, by Fernando de Mendoza y Mate de Luna.

In the Preakness Stakes, which was the first of the Triple Crown races in 1931 he finished fourth behind Mate.

He continued on with the Lexington after Barry was replaced as captain by William Hallock, who promoted Dale to Master's Mate.

To counter this, the government established in September 1950 the Office for Fighting the Black Market (, Mate LeMilhama BaShuk HaShahor ), whose goal it was to combat the forming of such a market.

Best Mate who captured the Cheltenham Gold Cup three successive times between 2002 – 2004, was Irish-bred, but trained and owned in England.

* after this Examinant together with the said Robert Clarke went from the fort to the towne of Galway: vpon whose comeing there was a Court of assembly called where were present the Maior Adermen and burgesses of the towne or the < A > greater part of them, and likewise Mr Patrick Darcy & Mr Martin Lawyeres Before whom this Examinant and the said Robert Clark were called And this Examinant shewing the said warrant before the said assembly, the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin being present, They the said Mr Darcy & Mr Martin Did there publickly declare that it was treason in this Examinant and the said Clark to hinder & deteine the said Armes from them by virtue of the said warrant ( they then pretending themselues to be his Maiesties subjects ) And therevpon committed both of them to the towne gaole of Galway where they remained for the space of 10 or 12 dayes following vntil they were released by the Erle of Clanrickard, And this Examinant further saith That the said Erle of Clanrickard did make an end of the said differences betweene the merchant of the said shipp & the said Robert Clarke, and did assure the said Clarke that all things shold be fairly carried But the said Erle Leaving the said towne of Galway the said Dominick Keghran factor to the said Tho: Linch with divers others, ( by the direction of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin ( as this examinant verely beleeveth went aboard the said shipp & carrjed with them seuerall boats, vpon pretence to vnlade the salt, And vpon their comeing to the said shipp ( the said Clark being at the fort, and some of his men to out of the ship to fetche Ballast ) entered the said ship and killd the Masters Mate and twoe or 3 more of the men aboard the said shipp and wounded seuerall others there, & soe possessed themselues wholly of the said shipp, being of the burden of three hundred tun or thereabouts, And likewise tooke out of the said shipp, about tenn peece of ordinance, which were landed presently, and planted against his Maiesties fort And further this Examinant saith That in the beginning of the Rebellion, vntill such tyme as the said Mr Darcie and Mr Martin came to the towne of Galway, they within the said fort were furnished of such necessaries as they wanted for their moneys But after the comeing of the said Mr Darcy and Mr Martin to the said towne, the townsmen admitted the Irish people of Err Connaght, to come into the said towne, whoe robbed this examinant and the English Inhabitants within the said towne and Killd & murthered seuerall of them: Amongst which they cut off the heads of one John Fox & his wiffe, and murthered one Mris Collins as she was kneeling at her prayers, And as this examinant hath heard, after the said murders were comitted the Irish tumbled the heads of the heads of the said ffox & his wiffe about the streets, And further saith That at althoughe the said people of Err Connaght had robbed and murthered the English as aforesaid: yet neither the Maior or Aldermen of Galway aforesaid or the said Darcy < A > or Martin did any way punish the offenders, but rather abetted and manteined them in their barbarous cruelties And this Examinant further saith That after, by direction & helpe of the towne of Galway the said fort was s beseiged, And the townsmen of Galway hyred the Cuntry to doe the same Soe that the fort was inforced to yield about the xxvth of June 1643: Wherevpon this Examinant went into the towne of Galway to demand some of his goods according to the quarter given them, And in the meane time the shipping being in the harbour went away & left this examinant behynd Soe as he was inforced to get a Convoy to Bonrattee to the Erle of Thomond, And being there one Dunn servant of Sir Roger ô Shafnusy, related to the Erle of Thomond and him this Examinant, that he sawe the said Richard Martin whoe was then Major of Galway, vpon a Sunday morning with a pick ax in his hand setting people on work to domolish & pull downe the fort of Galway John Turner Jurat.

In 1950, Paper Mate made its first leak free ball point pen.

The first major instance of censorship under the Production Code involved the 1934 film Tarzan and His Mate, in which brief nude scenes involving a body double for actress Maureen O ' Sullivan were edited out of the master negative of the film.

Provisionally titled Workers ' Mate, the newspaper first appeared on International Women's Day, March 8, 1914, as Women's Dreadnought, with a circulation of 30, 000.

Camel beat Mate Parlov for the vacant WBC world Cruiserweight title in 1980, losing the title in his first defense, to Carlos De León.

The album's first single, " My Mate Paul ," was Holmes ' first commercial success.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the President be, and is hereby, authorized to award, in the name of Congress, gold medals of appropriate design to Commander John H. Towers for conceiving, organizing, and commanding the first trans-Atlantic flight ; to lieutenant Commander Albert C. Read, United States Navy, commanding officer NC-4 ; to Lieutenant Elmer F. Stone, United States Coast Guard, pilot ; to former Lieutenant Walter Hinton, United States Navy, pilot ; to Lieutenant H. C. Rodd, United States Navy, radio operator ; to former Lieutenant J. L. Breese, United States Naval Reserve Force, engineer ; and to former Machinist's Mate Eugene Rhodes, United States Navy, engineer, for their extraordinary achievement in making the first successful trans-Atlantic flight, in the United States naval flying boat NC-4, in May, 1919.

Out of all of his races, Best Mate was never out of the first two, as well as never falling at a fence or hurdle.

Out of the 22 starts that Best Mate ran in, he came first in 14 of them, and second in the other seven, the 22nd race being the one he was pulled up in shortly before his death.

Best Mate was the first horse to win the Gold Cup more than once since L ' Escargot in 1970 and 1971.

The first of many books promoting the above concept was The Five Love Languages: How to Express Heartfelt Commitment to Your Mate, first published in 1992.

The WBC was the first boxing organization to recognize the cruiserweight division when it sanctioned a bout between Marvin Camel and Mate Parlov on December 8, 1979, for their version of the title.

James Cook, a fellow Yorkshireman, first served under Palliser as Master's Mate of HMS Eagle from 1755 to 1758.

Back in opposition, Budiša first quit his party, and dramatically returned a year later-which was seen as a staged event-and then tried to return to power by forming a centre-right bloc together with the new Democratic Centre of Mate Granić.

On 13 January 1967, the Secretary of the Navy announced that Master Chief Gunner's Mate ( GMCM ) Black was appointed as the first Senior Enlisted Advisor, the position that would evolve into Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy.

The former NAS Lakehurst also hosted the U. S. Navy's first helicopter squadrons, HU-1 ( later HC-1 ) and HU-2 ( later HC-2 ); the " A " and " C " enlisted training schools for the Aerographer's Mate ( AG ), Aviation Boatswain Mate ( AB, ABE, ABF, ABH ), and Parachute Rigger / Aircrew Survival Equipmentman ( PR ) ratings until their transfer to other Naval Air Technical Training Centers ; and an Overhaul & Repair ( O & R ) facility for fixed-wing aircraft, the forerunner of the former Naval Air Rework Facilities and Naval Aviation Depots ( NADEPs ) now known as Fleet Readiness Centers ( FRCs ).

* A Great Auk is collected by fictional naturalist Stephen Maturin in the Patrick O ' Brian historical novel The Surgeon's Mate.

* Article by Aaron Mate from Z-Net

* Avvasi ( founded by Mate Prgin ( Graduate ), Michael Gallant ( Adjunct Professor ) and Alex Leyn ( Graduate ))

* Bob Denver as First Mate Gilligan the bumbling, naive, accident-prone crewman ( affectionately known as " Little Buddy " by " The Skipper ") of the S. S. Minnow.

" Mate Care-For " is one of the principal Loa revered by the pirates in Tim Powers's 1987 novel On Stranger Tides.

There is a Parque Historico do Mate, funded by the State of Parana, Brazil, to educate people on the sustainable harvesting methods needed to maintain the integrity and vitality of the oldest wild forests of mate in the world.

The southern and central portions of the state is covered by the Araucaria moist forests, and has large tracts of Yerba Mate ( Ilex paraguayensis ), known in Brazil as erva mate, used to make a tea called Chimarrão.

* Mate, a card game by G. Capellen

Petty Officers and Chief Petty Officers are referred to by a combination of rate and rating: for example, a Petty Officer Second Class with the rating of Gunner's Mate is referred to and addressed as " Gunner's Mate Second Class ," abbreviated and sometimes spoken GM2 ; similarly a Chief Petty Officer with the rating of Quartermaster is referred to as a Chief Quartermaster ( QMC ).

They played a lot then at the Chess Mate Coffeehouse owned by Morrie Widenbaum, a mostly folk venue that also hosted bands like Southbound Freeway, Siegel-Schwall Blues Band and Blues Magoos.

The most common haka, or challenge, performed by the All Blacks and many other New Zealand sports teams before international matches is " Ka Mate "-composed by Te Rauparaha to celebrate his escape from death in a battle in the early 19th century.

In chess, Scholar's Mate is the checkmate achieved by the moves:

The eponymous hero – Captain Horatio Pugwash – sails the high seas in his ship called the Black Pig, ably assisted by cabin boy Tom, pirates Willy and Barnabas, and Master Mate.

On November 5 he beat Twenty Grand by half a length with Mate a neck away in third in the Pimlico Futurity.

Mate choice in Satin Bowerbirds has been studied in detail by a group of researchers at the University of Maryland, College Park.

Will learns that when First Mate Barbossa and the crew mutinied and marooned Sparrow, only Bootstrap defended him, infuriated by Barbossa's betrayal.

The Surgeon's Mate is a historical novel written by Patrick O ' Brian and set during the Napoleonic Wars.