Flair dropped out of college before receiving his degree, and he then worked as a bouncer at a nearby club, where he met Olympic weightlifter Ken Patera, who was preparing for a ring career at Verne Gagne's wrestling school.

Flair met Ken Patera when he was working as a bouncer after dropping out of school at the U of M after completing his freshman year there in 1968-69.

For years the volcano's formal name was Alba Patera.

These colourful layers, in which zippeite was in the majority, gave Patera the idea of utilizing the uranium minerals in the manufacture of paints.

Their first feud was with the team of Ken Patera and Billy Jack Haynes, which started after Ax and Smash brutalized WWF jobber Brady Boone ( billed in storyline as the cousin of Billy Jack Haynes ) during a televised match.

Orndorff ’ s last “ big " appearance was at the inaugural Survivor Series on November 26, 1987, where he teamed with Hulk Hogan, Bam Bam Bigelow, Ken Patera, and Don Muraco to take on Andre the Giant, the One Man Gang, King Kong Bundy, Rick Rude, and Butch Reed.

He was a serious competitor to the Soviet legend Vasily Alexeev at the 1972 Summer Olympics, but he failed to total and was not among the medal recipients. Vasily Alexeev even stated to the media that Patera was even stronger than him illustrated by a 550 pound push press overhead that Patera had allegedly done in practice nevertheless when it came to competing Alexeev always won -- User: Ceyockey confirmed by interrogation of the 1972 Munich Summer Olympics database that Patera was not among the medal recipients ; http :// www. olympic. org / uk / athletes / results / search_r_uk. asp = search interface --> After the press ( a lift in which Patera was disproportionately talented ) was eliminated from competition, Patera retired from weightlifting.

Patera introduced Flair to Verne Gagne, who agreed to take him on as a member of his training class.

Patera returned to the AWA in early 1989 and unsuccessfully challenged the new AWA world champion Larry Zbyszko for the title.

Thompson recruited and hired Jack Patera, a Minnesota Vikings assistant coach, to be the first head coach of the Seahawks.

In 1978 he moved to the professional ranks as the defensive line coach for the NFL's Seattle Seahawks under head coach Jack Patera.

Under the tutelage of Josh Klemme and Billy Robinson, Flair attended Gagne's first Wrestling camp with Greg Gagne, Jim Brunzell, Iron Sheik, and Ken Patera at Gagne's barn outside of Minneapolis in the winter of 1971.

Galileo image showing a dark spot ( interrupting the red ring of short-chain Allotropes of sulfur | sulfur allotropes deposited by Pele ( volcano ) | Pele ) produced by a major eruption at Pillan Patera in 1997

Galileo observed the effects of a major eruption at Pillan Patera and confirmed that volcanic eruptions are composed of silicate magmas with magnesium-rich mafic and ultramafic compositions with sulfur and sulfur dioxide serving a role similar to water and carbon dioxide on Earth.

Unlike similar features on Earth and Mars, these depressions generally do not lie at the peak of shield volcanoes and are normally larger, with an average diameter of 41 km ( 25 mi ), the largest being Loki Patera at.

These features are often the site of volcanic eruptions, either from lava flows spreading across the floors of the paterae, as at an eruption at Gish Bar Patera in 2001, or in the form of a lava lake.

Other shield volcanoes with much shallower slopes are inferred from the morphology of several of Io's volcanoes, where thin flows radiate out from a central patera, such as at Ra Patera.

On April 6, 1984, Patera and fellow AWA heel Masa Saito were denied service after hours at a McDonald's restaurant in Waukesha, Wisconsin, prompting an angry Patera to throw a rock through a window of the building ( Patera claims that a former employee threw the rock but he received the blame ).

Sixteen months later, at which point Patera was in the WWF, he was sentenced to two years in prison.

Patera then began feuding with the Heenan Family ( at the time composed of Paul Orndorff, Harley Race, King Kong Bundy and Hercules ).

His father coached the defensive line at UW for three seasons, then moved over to the pro ranks with the Seattle Seahawks in 1978, where he coached for four years under Jack Patera.

Adnan had to quit wrestling when he was injured, which is the real reason Patera was brought in to team with Blackwell, in 1982 at the AWA SuperSunday he teamed with blackwell in a tag team match against Vern Gagne and Mad Dog Vachon and they lost it, in 1986 at the AWA WrestleRock he lost to Vern Gagne in a steel cage, the sheik teamed with Boris Zuchov in tag team match against the The Midnight Rockers ( Marty Jannetty & Shawn Michaels ), he stayed in the AWA until the late 1990 as the top heel manager.

* Janus Patera, a shallow volcanic crater on Io, a moon of Jupiter

* Camaxtli Patera, one of the paterae ( shallow craters ) on the Jovian moon of Io

Ruaumoko Patera, named after this god, is one of many paterae ( shallow craters ) on Io, one of Jupiter's moons.

The ridge is oriented north-south and forms part of the Noachian-aged basement on which Alba Patera sits.

* Loki Patera, a volcano on Jupiter's moon Io

He defeated Ken Patera on July 25 to begin his second reign as the International Champion.

Valentine would hold the title once more, defeating Wahoo again on September 10 and losing to Ken Patera on April 9, 1978.

Based on Viking Orbiter images, the volcanic materials related to the formation and evolution of the volcano have been grouped into the Alba Patera Formation, which consists of lower, middle, and upper members.

On August 23, Monsoon put his career on the line in a match against Ken Patera.

The Wizard made it his duty to gain revenge on Backlund, sending charges such as Don Muraco, Ken Patera and Greg Valentine after the champion.

Patera then appeared on screen and revealed that he had replaced every slip of paper with one that said " Ken Patera ".

The next week, the two men met in a 10-minute time limit match on TV, with Patera putting Valentine under with a headlock / chinlock when the bell rang to signify the time limit had expired.

Officially, the match ended in a draw, but with Patera on the verge of defeating Valentine ( who had been portrayed as nearly unbeatable ) on television.

Patera would hold that title, off and on, for over a year, losing it to, and regaining it from Tony Atlas.

The WWF brought Patera back to the company in the spring of 1987, airing vignettes on WWF TV and releasing a Coliseum Video cassette entitled " The Ken Patera Story ", which chronicled his career and his return.

Alan H. Patera in Rhyolite: The Boom Years states published estimates of the peak population have been " as high as 6, 000 or 8, 000, but the town itself never claimed more than 3, 500 through its newspapers ".

Patera is the younger brother of Jack Patera, who coached the NFL's Seattle Seahawks from 1976 to 1982.

The plains are dotted with pits, such as Leviathan Patera, which are probably the vents from which this lava emerged.

Patera, or Myoshima to its inhabitants, is an invisible moon that cannot be seen from Mystara.

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Some of the AWA's other top talent, including announcer " Mean " Gene Okerlund, manager Bobby " The Brain " Heenan, and wrestlers Adrian Adonis, Ken Patera, Jim Brunzell, David Schultz, and Jesse Ventura, also jumped to the WWF.

During this time he would defend the title against Zenk, Greg Gagne, Wahoo McDaniel, Ken Patera, Nikita Koloff, Brad Rheingans, The Trooper Del Wilkes, and Masa Saito.

The oval feature in the north is Alba Patera.

This region is dominated by Alba Patera and its extensive volcanic flows.

Alba Patera is a vast, low-lying volcanic construct that is unique to Mars.

Alba Patera is so large and topographically distinct that it can almost be treated as an entire volcanic province onto itself.

It has a 350x150 km north-south elongated central depression containing the calderas Nili Patera and Meroe Patera, which are about 2 km deep.

The floor of Nili Patera is the less cratered, and therefore the younger, of the two.

While most of the rock is basaltic, dacite has also been detected in Nili Patera.

In his second reign, Bruno defeated contenders such as John Tolos, Bruiser Brody, Spiros Arion, Ken Patera, Bugsy McGraw, Freddie Blassie, Baron Von Raschke, Waldo Von Erich, Ivan Koloff, " Superstar " Billy Graham, Don Leo Jonathan, Angelo Mosca, Ernie Ladd, Big Bob Duncum and Nikolai Volkoff.

DiBiase then defeated Brutus Beefcake, Ken Patera, Ron Bass, and Randy Savage to win the 1988 King of the Ring tournament, receiving his first WWF success.

He later moved up to Jim Crockett Promotions in the Carolinas as a heel manager managing wrestlers like Jimmy Snuka, Ken Patera, Gene Anderson, and Big John Studd.